6 Woodbury Schools Named On Latest COVID-19 Outbreak List

WOODBURY, MN — The number of Woodbury schools on the Minnesota Department of Health’s list of facilities with coronavirus outbreaks remained at six Thursday.

East Ridge High School, Woodbury High School, Liberty Ridge Middle School, Lake Middle School, Saint Ambrose Catholic School and the Woodbury Leadership Academy were once again included, with no schools added to or removed from the most recent list.

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Four of those schools are in the South Washington County Schools district, which is requiring all students and staff to wear masks through at least Feb. 1 after a spike in COVID-19 cases to start 2022.

The COVID-19 data dashboard for South Washington County Schools shows there have been 3,237 total coronavirus cases this academic year across the district's schools, as of Jan. 20. That total includes more than 1,200 new cases recorded from Jan. 7-20.

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The dashboard did not include data from the past week, as of 3 p.m. Thursday.

Twenty-six Washington County schools were included on the Minnesota Department of Health's most recent list of facilities with coronavirus outbreaks, the same number as last week.

Thursday's list included 468 schools throughout Minnesota, 24 more than last week.