Click here for the 2021-22 Safe Schools Report.

This fall, parents and school employees have been forced to make extremely tough choices with scant, confusing and often contradictory health and safety guidance from their local, state and federal government.

In fact, the state of Florida has now gone so far as issuing gag orders on local health departments — in Duval, Orange and Flagler — keeping them from releasing Covid-19 data in schools.

Against this backdrop, FEA’s Safe Schools Report is an effort to collect and display important, factual information surrounding the opening of school campuses across the state. We hope that in some small way the information displayed on this page will help our members and Florida’s families find the crucial information they need to navigate the competing concerns brought on by the pandemic.

The Florida Department of Health has stopped providing daily updates. As a result, we will no longer regularly update this page. The numbers on this site reflect what the Department of Health reported through June 2, 2021.

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10

Florida school-age children (K-12) who have died from Covid-19. (source)

46

Florida active educators who have died from Covid-19 since Commissioner Corcoran’s July 6 Reopening Order. 

(Above is a partial list based on published news reports. To submit additional information please use the form below.)

200,834

Florida school-age children (K-12) who’ve tested positive for Covid-19 since Aug. 10, when the first schools opened in the state. (source / source / source)

14.6%

Florida’s statewide Covid-19 pediatric positive testing rate. The Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends 5% as the upper threshold of testing for students to return to school.

Each  of Florida’s 67 counties are above 10%. (source)

116,881

Confirmed Florida PreK-12 students and staff who’ve tested positive for Covid-19.

(Above is a partial list based on published news reports and cumulative school district reports. To submit additional information please use the form below.) 

21,500

Confirmed Florida higher education students and staff who’ve tested positive for Covid-19.

(Above is a partial list based on published news reports and cumulative university reports. To submit additional information please use the form below.) 

21*

Confirmed full-school closings since the first Florida schools started to reopen on Aug. 10. 

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(Above is a partial list based on published news reports. To submit additional information please use the form below.) 

1,235

Confirmed classroom closings and quarantines since the first Florida schools started to reopen on Aug. 10. This list includes full and partial classroom closings, as well as the classrooms from the full-school closings above.

(Above is a partial list based on published news reports. To submit additional information please use the form below.)