Facility Sanitizing

The Cleaning and Disinfecting High-Touch Surfaces document provides guidance to schools for developing strategies to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, including COVID-19, through frequent cleaning of high touch surfaces.

Keeping schools clear of COVID-19 will require diligent planning and implementation. If prevention measures such as physical distancing, symptom screening/temperature checks, or face coverings are essential, a variety of strategies will be necessary to prepare a campus for operation.

• Creating Procedures for Transitions, Settings, and Situations

Campus Capacity

The prevention measures recommended to control the spread of COVID-19 will severely constrain the number of students who can be on campus at one time. For planning purposes, it will be necessary to determine the school's modified capacity, which is the number of students that can be accommodated in its instructional spaces at one time while maintaining physical distancing in all instructional spaces. 

• Physical distancing Impacts on School and Classroom Capacity

Meal Programs and Busing

Meal Programs

As the economic impacts of the pandemic on families continues to be seen, it is reasonable to assume that more school children will rely on school meal programs than in previous years. At the same time, prevention measures necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 are likely to limit the number of students who can be on campus at one time. Maintaining access to school meal programs for qualifying children will be essential.

• Nutrition Services Operational Planning Fall 2020
• Meal Access for Students Learning Off Campus
• CDE Guidance on School and Child and Adult Day Care Meals

Busing Protocols

For many students, their first interaction with classmates begins when they board the bus to school. This document provides guidance for schools on busing procedures, including sanitizing, symptom screening, loading/unloaded, seating, scheduling, and considerations for students unable to board the bus.