LAUSD COVID-19 School Report Card

Now that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has transitioned students back to full-time in-person instruction, it is important to monitor COVID-19 cases at each school. The LAUSD COVID-19 School Report Card serves this purpose.

Upon selecting a school in the upper right corner, it provides a dashboard summary of active COVID-19 cases among staff and students and characterizes how many of those cases come from school-based transmission. It also provides data on community case rates which are broken down into staff and student case rate, community case rate, and LA county case rate. Definitions of each metric are provided in a glossary below the dashboard. Cases from school-based transmission are defined as positive test cases that were determined to be epidemiologically linked through contact tracing. There is currently no detail provided regarding contact tracing methods, but I assume this is done manually. Unfortunately there does not appear to be an option to download the entire data set.

Of interest, the reporting statuses are listed as OPEN (no active positive cases that are epidemiologically linked), OPEN (2 or more active positive cases that are epidemiologically linked; all close contacts are in quarantine), or CLOSED (school closure determined by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health). As of right now, it is not clear what the contingency plan would be in the even of school closure, and I hope I don’t find out what it is.