COVID-19

This Holy Spirit Catholic School's dashboard is designed to provide a snapshot of the number of students/staff out of school due to COVID-19 at a specific point in time.

• Active Positive Cases: The number of students/staff who are currently diagnosed as COVID-19 positive.
• Quarantine:
  • Students/staff who have not tested positive but are home due to being identified as a close contact to an individual who has tested positive which may or may not have transpired at school.
• Classes in Quarantine: Does not mean an outbreak of cases occurred in a class. Students/staff in a quarantined class are not counted in the quarantine numbers.

Students/staff are deducted from this data when they return to school.
Numbers will be updated daily (Monday-Friday) by 3:30 p.m.

Holy Spirit Catholic School

Updated 1/21/2022

Beginning January 11, 2022, Holy Spirit Catholic School will require all staff and students to wear masks for 14 days, as a result of reaching a building 2% COVID positivity rate. We will review the positive case data on Monday, January 24, 2022 to determine optional or mandatory masks beginning Tuesday, January 25, 2022.

Masking indoors for all students 4K-grade 8, staff and visitors.  Masks will be required for preschool 3 morning classes when they enter, leave, or in the hallways.  It will be strongly encouraged for preschool 3 students while in the classroom, but not required.  Masks will be required indoors for all childcare services (before care, extended care, lunch bunch, all-inclusive care). 

Diocese of Green Bay Dashboard
Outagamie County Data
General Outagamie County case data is available here
School reports and other reference documents are now available on the Outagamie County website

• If you are feeling ill or if you may have been exposed to someone that has tested positive for COVID-19, visit WI-DHS testing page to learn the different ways you can get tested.
• Call your provider or 211 if you have symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19, even if you are fully vaccinated.
• Visit a community testing site

COVID-19 Testing at Holy Spirit Catholic School

COVID testing will be from 10:00-11:00 AM on MWF and 11:30-12:30 on TTH until further notice.
Holy Spirit will be offering on site COVID-19 testing for all symptomatic teachers, staff, students, and their families.  Yes, this means that students' family members, (parents and siblings - even if they don't attend Holy Spirit) can be tested at this location.  Testing will be done entering the Scrip door on the southwest side of the school building (by the church) near the front of school.
Directions to sign up and give consent
More information about the Testing program
Testing will not take place on non-school days during the year (Thanksgiving & Christmas breaks, etc.)

Call your medical provider

Contact your healthcare provider to ask if they are providing testing.

Calumet County Community Testing Sites
Outagamie County Community Testing Sites
WI-DHS website for Community Testing Sites

ThedaCare Walk-In Care
2500 E. Capital   Dr.
Appleton, WI 54911
920-830-6877

ThedaCare Physicians- Neenah
333 North Green Bay Road
Neenah, WI

• Click here to schedule an appointment

Theda Clark Medical Center
130 2nd St. West Pavilion
Neenah, WI 54956
920-729-2155

Partnership Community Health Center (Will test children under 5 years old)
5471 W. Waterford Ln
Appleton, WI 54913
920-731-7445
9:00-11:00 am daily

De Pere & Green Bay Prevea 
Appt. needed

WI Department of Health Services: locations listed around the state

• Community Testing Sites

Isolation, Quarantine, and Close Contacts Scenarios
For more information about Isolation, Quarantine, and Close Contact scenarios please see page 23-27 on the  Guidelines for Prevention, Investigation, and Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in K-12 Schools in Wisconsin - August 2021

Q. My child has a cough or two of the symptoms on part 2 of the Health Screening Checklist 2021-22. What should I do? 
A. Contact your medical provider and have your child tested for COVID-19.   Guidelines for Prevention, Investigation, and Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in K-12 Schools in Wisconsin - August 2021 
As of right now, if a family/household member has symptoms and is being tested for COVID, siblings will be allowed to come to school while we await test results.

If you can isolate the child with symptoms from your other children, please do so.  Close Contacts are determined by the last contacted day of a COVID-19 positive person.  The quicker you quarantine from a potential positive case, the quicker your students could return to school. 

If the child with symptoms of COVID-19 test results are negative, and there is NOT a known close contact to a COVID-19 positive case and the individual is fever free is fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication, the child and their siblings may return to school.
Now, some students may have to miss extended periods of time throughout the school year because of this "best practice."  We have mounted in all the K-grade 8 classrooms a camera that displays only the front of the whiteboard of the classroom.  Depending on the grade level, students will have the opportunity to join virtually and watch a/some lesson(s) for the day from home.  This virtual option is meant for students who are quarantining, isolating, or waiting test results.  Please be patient with the teachers as it may take a day for the teachers to gather materials and send you the virtual invite for google meet for virtual learning.
Next Steps while you wait for test results

For information on quarantines see the WI DHS document:  How long should I quarantine?
WI DHS Quarantine Options: FAQ
Holy Spirit is accepting the 14-day quarantine option, 10-day quarantine option, and 7-day quarantine with a negative test option.  If a student-athlete is deemed a close contact, they will be excluded from athletics for 14 days.

Tests: Antigen vs. PCR
Holy Spirit is accepting rapid antigen tests and PCR tests.  Some cases of negative antigen tests, may require a confirmatory longer PCR test.


Isolation Release and House Hold Contacts of Positive Cases
DHS website with Diagnosed or Close Contact to positive test info

• How long do I need to quarantine? The answer may depend on whether you live with someone who has been diagnosed. Since it may take up to 14 days for you to have symptoms after infection.  
• For information on quarantines see the WI DHS document:  How long should I quarantine?
• Holy Spirit is accepting the 14-day quarantine option, 10-day quarantine option, and 7-day quarantine with a negative test option.  If a student-athlete is deemed a close contact, they will be excluded from athletics for 14 days.you should self-quarantine for 14 days from when you last had contact with the infected person, or for 14 days from when the infected person in your household has recovered. 

See Outagamie County Public Health (OCPH) quarantine release flyer for those who:

• Had a close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19
• Live with someone who has COVID-19
• Live with someone what has COVID-19, but never got sick 
   

CDC website resources
When to quarantine?
Isolate if you are sick

Other Resources
Outagamie County Public Health (OCPH) website - COVID-19
Next Steps while you wait for test results
Close Contact FAQ & Clarifications: 9-11-20 - OCPH
COVID-19 FAQ for schools: 9-8-20 - OCPH

Individual that is NOT a known close contact vs. Individual IS a known close contact table/chart (page 29 & 30)
Wisconsin Childhood Communicable Disease Wall Chart