Health & Fitness

Here Are The COVID Numbers In AV/Rosemount Schools

An Apple Valley school was taken off the MDH's list of schools with recent COVID outbreaks this week, but a Rosemount school was added.

APPLE VALLEY/ROSEMOUNT, MN — A total of eight schools from Apple Valley and Rosemount are on this week's list of school's that have had recent outbreaks of COVID-19, as reported by the Minnesota Department of Health.

MDH also recently added data showing the range of COVID-19 cases in each school per week.

Here are the Apple Valley schools on the list:

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  • Apple Valley Senior High School
    • Reported between 5-9 cases between Sept. 5-18. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
  • Cedar Park Elementary
    • Reported between 5-9 cases Sept. 19-Oct. 2. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
  • Highland Elementary
    • Reported between 5-9 cases Sept. 19-Oct. 2. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
  • Scott Highlands Middle
    • Reported between 5-9 cases Sept. 19-Oct. 2. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
  • Valley Middle School
    • Reported between 5-9 cases between Sept. 5-18 and reported the same number between Sept. 19-Oct. 2. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.

Greenleaf Elementary School was removed from the list this week.

Here are the Rosemount schools on the list:

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  • Parkview Elementary
    • The school reported between 5-9 cases between Sept. 19-Oct. 2. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
  • Rosemount Middle
    • The school reported between 5-9 cases between Sept. 19-Oct. 2. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
  • St- Joseph's Catholic
  • The school reported between 10-19 cases between Sept. 19-Oct. 2 and between 5-9 cases between Oct. 3-16. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.

Parkview Elementary was added this week.

The list is updated every Thursday.


Editor's note: This information came from the Minnesota Department of Health. The view the list of schools on the current list, click here and search for "Cases in Pre-K through Grade 12 School Buildings."


A school has an outbreak when it reports five or more confirmed cases of the virus in students or staff who were in the building while infectious during the most recent two-week reporting period.

"School buildings listed may not have ongoing transmission," MDH noted. "School buildings that have not reported a new case for 28 days will be removed. If five or more cases are reported in a school building in a subsequent 2-week period, they will once again be listed.

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