Ethel Walker School
The Ethel Walker School reserves the right to restrict campus access in response to a rising community health risk.
The learning environment at Walker’s will continue to be an energized experience for all students both in our traditional classrooms and in the outdoor classrooms on campus. For indoor classrooms, student desks will be spaced three feet apart per CDC guidelines with students and instructors required to wear masks. Outdoor classrooms will also have desks spaced three feet apart; students and instructors will not be required to wear masks in outdoor classrooms. One-way hallways will be eliminated and movement in spaces such as Diddle’s, our school store, the library and social spaces, will be less restrictive albeit with three feet of distancing where possible.
Due to HIPPA laws, we are unable to share with families the vaccination status of other students. Families can be assured that students assigned to doubles will be paired with another student who has a similar vaccination status.
Fully-vaccinated boarding students will not be required to wear masks in dormitories after the first full week of classes. Boarding students who are fully vaccinated will be considered part of the dorm family pod and are able to move about the dorm, including eating with each other in common spaces, without masks, beginning September 15. Students who have vaccination exemptions will be required to wear their masks at all times in the dorms unless they are in their own room with the door closed or while conducting personal hygiene. Students who are unvaccinated will be assigned a specific bathroom that they must use during their time in the dorm.
We hope that shortly we will be able to welcome day students as visitors in the dorms. This will depend on our campus community remaining healthy and a downward trend in infections in the community due to variants.
In the short term, boarding students will only be allowed in their own dorms.
If our campus community remains healthy and there is a downward trend in infections in the community due to variants, boarding students will be able to welcome other boarders into their dorms with visitors masked at all times and students using common spaces only.
As was the case last year, students within a particular dorm could invite other students into their rooms for a visit. While students are visiting each other’s room, the door must remain propped open and in no instances should students be sitting or lying on each other’s bed or using each other’s pillow or linens.
Yes, vaccinated boarding students who are part of a dorm family pod are able to eat in common areas with other members of their pod.
Director of Residential Life and Student Activities
When asked what advice she would give to an incoming Walker's student, Mallory responded, "Try everything! This place really is magical, and all of the faculty truly support students in anything that they are interested in doing. You never know what passion you might discover if you try something new!"
Learn MoreDr. Meera Viswanathan
Head of School
mviswanathan@ethelwalker.org
+1-860-408-4210
Elisa Del Valle
Assistant Head of School for Student Life/Director of Social Justice and Inclusion
edelvalle@ethelwalker.org
+1-860-408-4287
Joyce McIntyre
Director of Health Services
jmcintyre@ethelwalker.org
+1-860-408-4289
Harrison Shure
Assistant Head of School and Dean of Academics
hshure@ethelwalker.org
+1-860-408-4212
Sarah Edson
Dean of Faculty and Dean of Academic Technology and Innovation
sedson@ethelwalker.org
+1-860-408-4233
Kati Eggert
Athletic Director
keggert@ethelwalker.org
+1-860-408-4290
