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School Notes: September 13

The Superintendent of Schools’ Welcome Back letter is here. It includes links to lots of helpful information for each school. The School Department’s app to use for the mandatory daily Covid-19 self-screening is here. Have you seen all the great back to school PSA videos? There’s one for each school and one about riding the bus. You can find them all here. Sanford students in grades K-4 will be attending in-person classes two days a week, beginning September 14, rather…

School Notes: September 6

Date for school photos to be taken have been scheduled as follows: Sanford High School - September 9-11Margaret Chase Smith - September 28 & 29Carl J. Lamb - October 5 & 6Willard - October 15 & 16Sanford Middle School - October 19 & 20, 22 & 23 The Willard School and Margaret Chase Smith School PTAs have combined. All information will be posted on the new McWillard School Facebook page. Calvert Learning information is available, for students in grades K-8…

High School & SRTC Start Date Delayed

by Matt Nelson, Superintendent of Sanford School District Good afternoon.  The Mills Administration today released a special update to its Health Advisory System that classifies counties’ relative risk of COVID-19 transmission by color. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) re-categorized York County from green to yellow due to increases in the number of cases per capita, a positivity rate three times above the state average and five new outbreaks…

School Reopening Notes: September 3

Bus routes for Sanford Middle School, High School and Bridge students have been posted on the School Department's website here. Bus routes for elementary school students will be posted early next week. The School Department is encouraging parents to provide transportation for their students whenever possible.  If you have any questions about transportation, call your child's school or Ledgmere at 324-4888.  Sanford's school nurses have released important health information for parents related to the opening of school, which includes the…

Middle School Not Ready to Open

Superintendent of Schools Matt Nelson announced Wednesday that the converted Sanford Middle School will not be ready to open on September 14 as planned. Instead, students in grades 5-8 will start the school year in full distance learning mode for two weeks, with in-person education now scheduled to begin September 28. Superintendent Nelson wrote that the reason for the change is the renovations to the school building are not completely finished. Faculty and staff began moving in last week, but…

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