COVID-19 Notification Dashboard

This general information is presented for parent, staff, and community notification purposes. If a student or employee is determined to be a close contact of a positive case, parents and employees are notified individually and immediately with next steps, including quarantine information.

When an active case is confirmed, it is added simultaneously to both the active column and cumulative column. As each person recovers and meets the CDC guidelines to return to school/work, their case is no longer considered active and is removed from the active column while remaining part of the cumulative total.

If you have specific health related questions about close contact, quarantine, testing centers, and other COVID-19 information, please contact the Shelby County Health Department at (901) 222-6275.

Collierville Schools does not have the authority to quarantine students, and the district does not control the requirements, expectations, communication, etc. about quarantines. The district receives notifications from the Shelby County Health Department of which students/employees are quarantined and their return-to-school/work date so this can be input in the student information system for attendance purposes.  Collierville Schools has the authority to exclude students who are symptomatic or who are potential close contacts but only from school or school-based activities.  On behalf of the Shelby County Health Department, when communication assistance is needed, Collierville Schools will send an exclusion (not quarantine) letter via email to close contacts and a general awareness robocall will be shared with each affected school community at the end of business day at 7 p.m. when there is a positive case at that specific Collierville school. 

Only Shelby County Health Department can make the determination that a student must quarantine at home. The Tennessee Department of Education has released a dashboard to help track cases at the local level. TDOE updates this dashboard weekly. For schools reporting under five positive student or employee COVID-19 cases, the school is listed without a specific number of cases for the category.

Communicating with Close Contacts:

Collierville Schools and Shelby County Health Department follow the protocols of the Tennessee Department of Health in conducting contact tracing and communicating with stakeholders.  After a positive case is confirmed and communicated to the school or district, the Shelby County Health Department guides the school in developing a list of close contacts to the confirmed positive.  Close contact is defined as any individual who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to positive specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated. That list is provided to the Shelby County Health Department so they can conduct contact tracing and advise Collierville Schools on next steps, including any necessary classroom or school-wide closures. Only the Shelby County Health Department can quarantine students. 

If you have specific health related questions about close contact, quarantine, testing centers, and other COVID-19 information, please contact the Shelby County Health Department at (901) 222-6275.