1 Stillwater School Added To COVID-19 Outbreak List

STILLWATER, MN — One Stillwater school was added Thursday to the Minnesota Department of Health's list of facilities with recent outbreaks, pushing the city’s total to five schools.

Stillwater Middle School was named on the department's most recent list, joining four other schools that have been on the list for at least a week:

• Rutherford Elementary
• St. Croix Preparatory Academy
• Stillwater Area High School
• Stonebridge Elementary

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Four of the five Stillwater schools on the list are in the Stillwater Area Public Schools district.

Several SAPS schools located outside Stillwater were also included on the most recent list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks:

• Afton-Lakeland Elementary (Lakeland)
• Andersen Elementary (Bayport)
• Brookview Elementary (Woodbury)
• Lake Elmo Elementary (Lake Elmo)
• Oak-Land Middle School (Lake Elmo)

The COVID-19 data dashboard for Stillwater Area Public Schools shows there have been 663 coronavirus cases among staff and students since the start of the 2021-22 academic year, as of Dec. 9, including 115 in the previous week.

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The Minnesota Department of Health's most recent list of facilities with coronavirus outbreaks included 49 Washington County schools, one more than the previous week.

The total number of Minnesota schools on the list dropped almost 20 percent over the past week, from 1,035 to 842 schools.