35 Schools in NW Metro on MN Health COVID-19 List
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) identified nearly three dozen schools that either remain on or have been added to its COVID-19 list.
Schools are put on the list if they have five or more cases over a recent two-week reporting period. Two schools, Birch Grove Elementary School for the Arts in Brooklyn Park and Sunset Hill Elementary in Plymouth, reported 10 to 19 new cases in the latest two-week stretch.
The school list doesn’t necessarily mean coronavirus infections spread inside school buildings. It only means students or staff were infectious while inside. Most of the cases involve students. Many younger students, ages 5 to 11, just starting receiving their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Schools are removed from the MDH list once they have no new infections for four consecutive two-week periods.
Northwest Suburban Schools on MDH List
Schools in the northwest suburbs with five or more cases that remain on the list include:
- Armstrong High School
- Ave Maria Academy, Maple Grove
- Basswood Elementary, Maple Grove
- Beacon Academy, Crystal
- Birch Grove Elementary for the Arts, Brooklyn Park
- Breck, Golden Valley
- Brooklyn Middle School
- Brooklyn Center Elementary
- Champlin Park High School
- Cooper High School
- Fernbrook Elementary, Maple Grove
- Greenwood Elementary, Plymouth
- Jackson Middle, Champlin
- Maple Grove Middle School
- Maple Grove High School
- Meadow Ridge Elementary, Plymouth
- Meadowbrook Elementary, Golden Valley
- Minnesota Excellence in Learning Academy, Maple Grove
- Monroe Elementary, Brooklyn Park
- North Woods Elementary, Plymouth
- Osseo Middle School
- Osseo High School
- Oxbow Creek Elementary, Brooklyn Park
- Parnassus Preparatory, Maple Grove
- Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley
- Plymouth Middle School
- Providence Academy, Plymouth
- Rice Lake Elementary, Maple Grove
- Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion, New Hope
- Rush Creek Elementary, Maple Grove
- St. Alphonsus, Brooklyn Center
- St. Vincent de Paul School, Brooklyn Park
- Sunset Hill Elementary, Plymouth
- Wayzata High School
- Weaver Lake Elementary, Maple Grove
The state’s average seven-day test positivity rate, meanwhile, is now up to 10.8 percent as of Nov. 11 data. That’s the highest since Dec. 5 of last year. MDH considers above 10 percent “high risk” for viral spread.
Also See: Robbinsdale Schools to Require COVID-19 Vaccines or Weekly Tests for Staff
Brooklyn Center | Brooklyn Park | Champlin | Crystal | Golden Valley | Maple Grove | New Hope | Osseo | Plymouth | Robbinsdale | Rogers | Twin Cities | Wayzata
