Your child must follow a minimum 5-day quarantine from the onset of symptoms. The day your child developed symptoms will become Day 0, and your child may return to school after Day 5 if:
- Your child tests negative for COVID on an antigen test, AND
- Your child does not develop any new symptoms, and any previous symptoms improve, AND
- Your child is fever free for at least 24 hours (without medication).
- NOTE: Your child may not return to school if they are positive on an antigen test (for as long as it takes) as this indicates that they are still contagious. Hilldale does not adhere to a 10-day maximum quarantine period.
If your child receives a positive COVID test from a routine screening and is asymptomatic:
Your child becomes must follow a minimum 5-day quarantine from the date of the first positive test. The day your child tested positive will become Day 0, and your child may return to school after Day 5 if:
- Your child tests negative for COVID on an antigen test, AND
- Your child does not develop any symptoms.
- NOTE: Your child may not return to school if they are positive on an antigen test (for as long as it takes) as this indicates that they are still contagious. Hilldale does not adhere to a 10 day maximum quarantine period.
In all POSITIVE cases:
- Parents should also notify all close contacts* outside of school.
- The school will notify the class (and teachers) that a child has tested positively in their class. No quarantine is required unless they become symptomatic. The class will be tested immediately and between Days 3-5.
- Your child must wear a mask indoors at school for a minimum of 10 days from the start of their isolation (even if testing negative), as is recommended by CDPH.
*Close Contact means sharing with a person, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, during the person’s infectious period, the same indoor space or outdoor space for fifteen minutes over a twenty-four-hour period, whether that fifteen minutes occurs in one unit of time, or over a series of incremental periods. Close contact in an outdoor space is defined as being within six feet of an infected person for that fifteen-minute cumulative period.