Coupeville Schools Superintendent Steve King
Things are chugging along on schedule.
Coupeville Schools Superintendent Steve King announced Wednesday that the district plans to bring back its high school students to a hybrid in-person learning model beginning Monday, March 15.
That decision covers grade 9-12 and will give all Coupeville students a chance to resume some form of education back inside school buildings.
CHS students follow on the heels of kindergarteners and special needs students, who returned in mid-January.
The Coupeville Elementary School followed in February, and middle school students begin March 8.
Parents are allowed to choose that their students remain in online schooling this school year, however, and it’s been reported that 30% of CMS students will go that route.
Under the hybrid plan, which was approved 4-1 by the Coupeville School Board, middle and high school students, who share a campus, will have distance learning from 8-10:30 AM.
Two days a week, half of each school’s student body will attend the school from 11:30-2, where they will remain in the same classroom with the same teacher.
Decisions to resume in-person schooling have come after frequent consultation with the Island County Public Health Department.
As students return, work continues, King said in his statement.
The district is waiting for guidance from state officials before planning the 2021 CHS graduation.
