3 Stillwater Schools Remain On Coronavirus Outbreak List: MDH

STILLWATER, MN — The number of Stillwater schools on the Minnesota Department of Health’s list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks stayed at three this week.

Stillwater Area High School has been on the state’s list for the past three weeks, with Wildwood Elementary and St. Croix Catholic added to the list last week.

Those three schools remain on the most recent list, which updates every Thursday.

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The COVID-19 data dashboard for the Stillwater Area School District shows there have been 27 total coronavirus cases at Stillwater Area High School since the start of the 2021-22 school year. The high school has about 2,760 students, according to Public School Review.

There have been seven coronavirus cases among students and staff at Wildwood Elementary since the start of the school year, Mahtomedi Public Schools’ dashboard shows. Wildwood Elementary serves about 600 students in kindergarten through second grade.

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Twenty Washington County schools were included on this week’s list, one more than last week.

The total number of Minnesota schools on the coronavirus outbreak list jumped from 405 last week to 497 on Thursday.

A school is deemed to have 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.

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"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."