10/8/2020: While the City of Grove has recently transitioned to a red COVID level, Grove Public Schools have seen a decline in students and staff members currently isolated and in quarantine.  Our current numbers of students and staff members unable to come to school are the lowest that they have been since the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.  As the COVID-19 story continues to unfold, we, at GPS believe that it is our responsibility to look at all of the data that affects our school, students, and staff members.  As the numbers of COVID infection and quarantined individuals stays low with GPS, we feel it is safe, and in the best interest of our students, for us to continue to offer face to face learning.  Distance learning is available to those students who are forced to miss school for COVID related reasons.  We consider it our great responsibility to protect our staff and students and believe that the mitigation efforts we have put in place over the last 9 weeks allow us to continue offering a traditional education model at this time.  We learn more about COVID and how it is affecting our community daily.  This information, along with constant communication with local health experts, helps us to make decisions as GPS moves through this unprecedented school year.  

We wish all Ridgerunners health and wellbeing!

Pat Dodson

Superintendent