School is back in session — whether that be from your kitchen table, at your local school, or a combination of both.
And personal finance website WalletHub (aka the curator of many rankings and reports unrelated to finance) has named Ohio one of America’s top 10 safest states for schools to reopen.
School systems throughout the state have worked diligently to decide the most productive and safest methods for their students to return, and WalletHub has evaluated states’ readiness based on a variety of metrics in order to produce their findings.
Metrics involved in the ranking system included two main categories: risk of COVID-19 infection and health and financial infrastructure. Each contained 15 subsections related to their category including child COVID-19 cases per 100,000 children; public mask usage; average public school class size; share of children living in crowded housing; comprehensive school reopening guidance and student-to-school-nurse ratio.
Ohio came in at No. 7, just after Rhode Island at No. 6 and ahead of New Jersey at No. 8. The safest state for schools to reopen is Vermont, according to the study, and the least safe state is Mississippi.
See the full methodology here.
This article appears in The Meaning of Monuments.