In anticipation of the start of the school year:

• We ask that all students take a rapid antigen test within 24 hours prior to their arrival on campus. You are welcome to use a rapid at-home test. If your test is positive, please contact the Health Center and stay at home.
• Primary COVID-19 vaccination continues to be required for all students unless an exemption has been approved by the School. For those who have not already received a COVID-19 booster, we strongly advise that you do so before coming to campus in the fall.  
• Update your proxy contact information. Isolation space on campus is very limited for the coming year. We ask all families to have a proxy in place who is able to pick up their student within 24 hours to isolate off campus. 
• Students should bring a supply of masks to campus. While we do not anticipate routine masking, there may be brief periods of higher risk when masking is implemented.
• Masks continue to be required for all individuals entering the Health Center.

For the start of the school year, masking will be optional. We support and encourage those who feel more comfortable masking to do so. We will closely monitor COVID-19 cases on campus and may change our practices and protocols as conditions warrant.

Students should bring a supply of masks to campus. While we do not anticipate routine masking, there may be brief periods of higher risk when masking is implemented.

Masks continue to be required for all individuals entering the Health Center.

We do not anticipate ongoing surveillance testing of the campus community.

In the Health Center, we continue to COVID test students who present with symptoms. 

Any student who tests positive for COVID-19 at any time, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, will be asked to leave campus with a parent, guardian, or proxy caregiver for a period of at least five (5) days from the date the test was obtained or onset of symptoms as confirmed by the Health Center. Students must be fever-free for at least 24 hours without fever reducing medication and symptoms (if symptomatic) must be significantly improved before we can consider their return to campus. Students must receive approval from the Health Center in order to return. Please contact the Health Center for more information. 

Please note, as isolation space is very limited, students must have a plan in place for a family member or trusted proxy to pick your student up from School within 24 hours if needed. 

We continue to use the CDC definition of a close contact. Based on guidance from the Department of Public Health, contact tracing may be limited to roommates in the case of students. 

Student close contacts will be permitted to attend classes with additional safety measures in place, including follow-up testing and masking. Further information will be communicated to affected individuals by the Health Center. 

Please ensure that you have a plan in place for a family member or trusted proxy to pick your student up from School within 24 hours if needed. You can update your proxy information here.
 

The Dining Hall will be open to all community members during designated meal times. Grab n’go service is no longer available, but you are welcome to eat in the Dining Hall or the tents outside the Student Center and Tremaine Gallery. In addition, the Snack Bar will also be open outside designated meal times (during Snack Bar hours) and will serve as an alternative location for eating. Please refrain from eating in spaces that are not designated dining spaces.