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Most Sacramento City Unified students did not meet district’s vaccine mandate deadline

Sawsan Morrar
·2 min read
Paul Kitagaki Jr./pkitagaki@sacbee.com

More than 70% of students ages 12 and older in Sacramento City Unified who are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine have not reported their vaccine status to the school district by the district’s Nov. 30 deadline.

The Sacramento City Unified school board voted in October to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all eligible students and staff. The mandate requires full vaccination by the Nov. 30 deadline and also includes all dependent charter schools and adult education centers.

While nearly 73% of the district’s 5,000 staff members are fully vaccinated, only about 27% of the district’s eligible 19,500 students 12 and older are fully vaccinated.

That translates to more than 14,000 students who have not reported their status by the deadline. Some students may be fully vaccinated but have not reported their status to the district.

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District officials said they are beginning to reach out to families who did not file their vaccination status.

“SCUSD will also be continuing to offer weekly vaccination clinics and provide testing to those who are not fully vaccinated,” read a statement from the district.

The COVID vaccines have been found to be highly effective at preventing infection and “helps protect adults and children ages 5 years and older from getting sick or severely ill with COVID-19 and helps protect those around them,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But some parents have pushed back on vaccine mandates across the state.

Thousands have protested in front of the state Capitol building against the state mandate that will require students to be vaccinated by July 2022 to attend public and private schools in California.

And some Sacramento City Unified parents distributed leaflets in the William Land Park neighborhood instructing parents on how to opt out of the mandate.

And 126 students in the district have filed for exemptions so far.

Among staff members, there are two medical exemptions and 86 religious exemptions.