AHSTW School District Superintendent Darin Jones, Monday afternoon, reported on social media, that due to an outbreak of COVID-19 among district staff, the decision was made to delay the start of classes until Monday, August 30th. Jones said “This outbreak has led to multiple positives and many more exposures. This leads to an increased concern level for me in knowing if we will be able to staff our building in the near future and also for the potential additional exposures to students who have yet to enter our building. It is for those reasons that AHSTW Community School District will be cancelling our Open House on August 23, 2021, with no make-up date planned. We will also be delaying the start of the school year until Monday, August 30, 2021.”

He went on to say, “With our tracing measures we have found that our students at the K-12 levels have not had the same level of exposure. This will allow our activities to continue as planned. So at this time, we plan to inform all schools whom we will be participating against of our decision to continue playing our activities for this week.

“Delaying the first day of school will require us to revisit our school district calendar. Please know that we are not reducing the number of school days at all, but the end of the year and staff in-service days will be adjusted. Please know our calendar change will not impact graduation day, but will impact the last day of school for all PK-12 students.”