Cave City Schools will be closed on Thursday, February 24th. This will be AMI day 9.
The national weather service has now place our area under a winter weather warning. Precipitation is projected to begin as early as 11:00 am and may include freezing rain and sleet. Many of our bus routes are in excess of an hour. In an abundance of caution, the Cave City district will be closed tomorrow and will use AMI Day 8. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Friendly reminder that Cave City Schools will be closed on Monday for Presidents’ Day. Also, we would like to congratulate our Sr Boys Basketball Team for making it to the tournament final tonight. They will play Riverview at Riverview in searcy at 7:00. We appreciate all of our student athletes and all our coaches for their hard work and dedication in their respective sports! We are very proud of all of you!!
In response to changes made by the Arkansas Department of Health regarding the quarantine of close contracts to positive covid cases, the Cave City School Board has suspended our face mask policy at this time. ADH no longer has a directive requiring schools to quarantine PCCs unless they actively show symptoms. Positive cases are still required to isolate for 5 days and then wear a mask for an additional 5. We will continue to provide masks for students who choose to wear them and will shall continue our sanitation methods to mitigate the spread of covid 19 and other contagious disease. We currently are aware of one active case in high school. We appreciate your continued support or our efforts.
Cave City Schools will be in session tomorrow. We will try to run our bus routes but each route will be based on that drivers discretion. There are still a few shaded spots on country roads that are unsafe. Our bus shop number is 870-384-0192. We appreciate your understanding.
Cave City schools will be closed tomorrow, February 7th due to poor conditions on many of the country roads in the district. We expect that some of the melting from today will refreeze by morning. Crews are working today to get the campus ready for having School Tuesday and for the Jr High District Tournament which we are hosting tomorrow night. Tomorrow will be an AMI Day.
Cave City Schools will be closed for an AMI Day on Friday, February 4th due to inclement weather.
For clarification purposes, we will use an AMI Day tomorrow and will likely have to use one on Friday as well.
Cave City student drivers will be dismissed to GO HOME today at 2:30. Busses will run at normal time this afternoon. Also, school will be closed tomorrow, February 3rd due to being under a winter weather warning. A determination of whether to come Friday will be made tomorrow.
The Cave City School District will be closed for in person learning this Thursday and Friday. We will be using AMI Days 3 & 4. This morning we had over 300 students absent and at least 20 employees. We understand that closing school puts a hardship on many working families and that students need to be in school. But 25% of our student population is a significant number, not to mention the staffing difficulties we are having. Hopefully pairing these two days with the weekend will give those who are sick an opportunity to heal, and will slow the increasing spread of sickness in our school and community.
The Cave City District added an additional 20 covid positive cases today. As was the case last week, there continue to be many additional absences due to other sickness in the district. We also believe there to be additional positive covid cases in our school population that have not contacted us at this time. Of our new active cases today, one is an employee, and 19 students: 7 HS, 6 MS, and 6 Elem. We will have school tomorrow and busses will run. We will continue to monitor student absences and consider using additional AMI days if necessary. If your student tests positive on an At Home test, please let us know for documentation purposes. We appreciate everyone for your cooperation and your support. We know closing school is a hardship for parents and for students. But the safety of our students and employees may require us to do so if necessary.
The Cave City District currently has 14 documented active cases. We believe there to be additional positive cases in our school population that have not contacted us at this time. Of our active cases, 9 are employees, and at least five students: 3 HS, 1 MS, and 1 Elem. New protocol requires active cases and probable close contacts to isolate/quarantine for five days. If no symptoms are evident on day 6, they may return to the general population as long as they wear a mask for an additional 5 days. We will have school tomorrow and busses will run. If your student tests positive on an At Home test, please let us know for documentation purposes. We appreciate everyone for your cooperation and your support.
The Cave City District currently has 19 documented active covid cases. We believe there to be additional positive cases in our school population that have not contacted us at this time. Of our active cases, 9 are employees, 2 are HS, 1 MS, and 7 Elem. New protocol requires active cases and probable close contacts to isolate/quarantine for five days. If no symptoms are evident on day 6, they may return to the general population as long as they wear a mask for an additional 5 days. There is no longer a requirement for a negative test to be released from quarantine. We intend to resume on site learning on Tuesday. If your student tests positive on an At Home test, please let us know for documentation purposes. We appreciate everyone for your cooperation and your support.
The Cave City District will be closed for onsite learning this Thursday and Friday due to excessive employee and student absences. We will use AMI days and pivot to virtual learning on those days. School will be open Wednesday and busses will run. However, if parents would like to keep their student home tomorrow in an abundance of caution, your child’s absence will be excused. Today we had 28 employees absent with sickness and almost 20 percent of our students were absent as well. Some of the absences were covid related due to isolation or quarantine, but most were related to stomach virus, flu, and seasonal colds. But, covid cases are certainly on the rise in our school and community, so hopefully this action will mitigate the spread of it as well. School will also be closed on Monday for MLK Day. We hope to return to school safely on Tuesday, January 18th . We appreciate your understanding and your continued support.
The Cave City District will be closed for onsite learning this Thursday and Friday due to excessive employee and student absences. We will use AMI days and pivot to virtual learning on those days. School will be in session tomorrow and busses will run. However, if you choose to keep your child home in an abundance of caution, your child’s absence will be excused. Today we have 28 employees absent with sickness and 20% of our students are absent as well. Though some absences are covid related due to isolation or quarantine, many are stomach virus, seasonal flu, and other sickness. Covid cases are certainly on the rise in our community so hopefully this action will mitigate the spread of it as well. School will also not be in session on Monday, January 17th for MLK day. We hope to return to school safely on Tuesday, January 18th. We appreciate your understanding and your continued support
In accordance with the Cave City Mask Advisory Policy, the current risk level assessment puts our district at High Risk. We currently have between 50-69 cases per 10,000 cases in our community as of the latest update on January 8th. As a result, masks will be required on busses and indoors until such time as our risk level is lower as determined by https://achi.net/COVID-19/ for the cave city school district. We currently have 5 positive active elementary cases, 1 HS case and 3 employees who are positive as of this report. We have many additional students and staff absent today due to flu and stomach virus as well.
Students in 6-8 received their 2nd 9 week report cards today, ask them about their 1st semester goals. This month we are working on Habit 4: Think Win-Win. This is a belief that everyone can win! It encourages us to be happy when good things happen to others. This helps you to stay positive and build relationships with your peers.
The Cave City District was made aware of positive covid cases since our return from Christmas Break. Five students have tested positive. Two from Elem. , one from MS, and two from HS. During our break, five staff members tested positive but all will be cleared this week. At the moment, masks are only recommended and not required, in accordance with our policy based on the ACHI index, but this will likely change soon as positive cases continue to increase in our community. Please screen your students daily for potential symptoms including sore throat, cough, fever, as they could be symptoms of the new omicron variant.
Our rules for isolation for positive cases continues to be ten days for students and staff. And Rules for quarantine still establish that if both the positive case AND the probable close contact are wearing masks, there will be no requirement for the PCC to quarantine as long as they do not develop symptoms. Also, vaccinated students will not have to quarantine as long as they exhibit no symptoms. Those who ARE quarantined can return in seven days if they attain a negative test from a health care professional five days after their exposure to a positive case.
Some of our local people are teaming with the Cave City Fire Department to organize a toy drive to help kids in the Truman area who were recently impacted by tornadoes. For any parents and community members who would like to help, please feel free to drop off a new toy either at the Cave City Fire Department or at one of our campuses. New toys will be delivered to Truman at noon this Friday. Parents who are able, might consider sending an age appropriate toy or gift that would match their own students age. Thank you in advance for anything that you could do.
In accordance with the Cave City Mask Advisory Policy, the current risk level assessment puts our district at Moderate Risk. We currently have between 30-49 cases per 10,000 cases in our community as of the latest update on December 9th. As a result, masks will only be recommended on busses and indoors until such time as our risk level is higher as determined by https://achi.net/COVID-19/ for the cave city school district. We currently have 5 active cases and as of this report.