St. Johns County School District Hires Staffing Agency to Help with Contact Tracing

The St. Johns County School District has hired a company to help with contact tracing in St. Johns County Schools according to News4Jax.

The contact tracing from the Florida Department of Health Department has been flawed with delayed parent notifications resulting in parents receiving quarantine notices on the day that the students were allowed to return to school.

The number of students and teachers testing positive for Covid-19 has escalated in the past few weeks, and parents have been fearful of sending their kids to school.

Maxim Healthcare Staffing Agency has now been hired to help with the contact tracing, you can see the St. Johns County Schools' contract to hire 6 nurses here.

As of Monday September 13th, there were 462 student testing positive Covid-19 tests, 72 teachers testing positive in the school district and 882 students were quarantined. 

Covid Numbers in Our Local Schools:

St. Augustine High School 

19 students testing positive Covid-19, 47 students quarantined.

1 teachers testing positive with Covid-19, 0 teachers quarantined.

Murray Middle School

6 students testing positive with Covid-19, 13 students quarantined.

1 teachers testing positive with Covid-19, 0 teachers quarantined.

The Webster School

3 students testing positive with Covid-19, 9 students quarantined.

3 teachers testing positive with Covid-19, 0 teachers quarantined.

Osceola Elementary 

4 students testing positive with Covid-19, 9 students quarantined.

1 teachers testing positive with Covid-19, 1 teachers quarantined.

Crookshank Elementary 

6 students testing positive with Covid-19, 16 students quarantined.

0 teachers testing positive with Covid-19, 0 teachers quarantined.

(Sep 13th numbers)

Check out the St. Johns County Schools Covid-19 Dashboard here to see the number of Covid-19 cases and quarantines on your child's school.

You can get free Covid testing downtown or free Covid-19 testing on the West side.

If you need a Covid-19 vaccine, it is easy, free and quick to get at CVS. Learn more about how to get your COVID vaccination at CVS here.

You can find more Covid-19 news in St. Johns County here.

If you are a West Augustine family, who has had experiences with the flaws in the contract tracing process, please contact us at westaugustinenewsconnection@gmail.com