NAMPA, Idaho — The Nampa School District scheduled a school board work session to take place on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.. Following the session, the board will potentially take action on a back-to-school 2021-2022 plan revision on Wednesday.
During the work session, the board will review recent COVID-19 data presented by the Nampa School District. You can watch the meeting on the district's YouTube Channel.
A document put together by the district is listed under their agenda items. It breaks down recent student absences, staff attendance, substitute teachers, vaccine rates, number of COVID-19 cases, and previous indicators.
Some statistics from the document read:
- 20% of middle school students are not in attendance
- 14.5% of elementary students are not in attendance
- More than 25% of our high school students are not in attendance
- On August 30, 2,692 students were not in school. All of last year, 2,579 students were asked to quarantine.
In addition, the document states that staff illness is at a record high with at least 20% of elementary staff out sick.
Because of the lack of available substitute teachers, 32 classrooms were left unfilled on August 31.
The district added that “If we were using our benchmarks from last year, all high schools would be in the red and virtual, middle schools would be in the orange and on alert. All elementaries would be in the yellow category with the exception of four elementary schools.”
The document also went further to note that Boise School District, which does have a mask mandate in place, is reporting typical attendance at 90%.
Information from the document will be presented at the Nampa School Board meeting on Tuesday. Following the presented information, the board can decide to revise the back-to-school plan or leave it as is.
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