Since Governor Charlie Baker announced last week that Massachusetts would end its statewide school mandate Feb. 28, individual school districts have been weighing whether to discard masking policies in their classrooms.
Regardless of a district’s choice to make masks optional within school buildings, masks still will have to be worn in all school health facilities such as nurses’ offices..
Dozens of school committees across the state already have voted to remove their own local mandates, but others have yet to decide.
Here’s a look at some of the schools that have announced they will drop or keep mask mandates.
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Schools keeping mask mandate:
- Amherst-Pelham
- Boston
- Chelsea
- Northampton
- Springfield
Schools dropping mask mandate:
- Abington
- Acushnet
- Agawam
- Algonquin Regional High School
- Amherst
- Amesbury
- Ashburnham — Westminster
- Ashland
- Attleboro
- Barnstable
- Bedford
- Belchertown
- Berkshire Hills Regional
- Beverly
- Billerica
- Bourne
- Braintree
- Bridgewater-Raynham
- Brockton
- Brookline
- Burlington
- Cambridge
- Canton
- Cape Cod Regional Technical High School
- Carver
- Chicopee
- Clinton
- Cohasset
- Concord-Carlisle
- Danvers
- Dartmouth
- Dedham
- Deerfield
- Dennis-Yarmouth
- Dighton-Rehoboth
- Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School
- Dover-Sherborn
- Dracut
- Duxbury
- Easton
- Edgartown
- Erving
- Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School District
- Everett
- Fall River
- Falmouth
- Fairhaven
- Fitchburg
- Foxborough
- Franklin
- Framingham
- Georgetown
- Gloucester
- Greater Lawrence Technical School
- Hingham
- Holbrook
- Holliston
- Hopkinton
- Hudson
- Hull
- King Philip Regional High School
- Lawrence
- Leominster
- Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
- Lowell
- Lynn
- Malden
- Mansfield
- Martha’s Vineyard Regional
- Marshfield
- Mashpee
- Medford
- Medway
- Milton
- Mohawk Trail Regional High School
- Monomoy — Harwich, Chatham
- Needham
- Newburyport
- Newbedford
- North Attleborough
- Northborough
- Norton
- Oaks Bluff
- Peabody
- Pembroke
- Plymouth
- Quincy
- Randolph
- Reading
- Revere
- Rockland
- Rockport
- Sandwich
- Scituate
- Seekonk
- Shrewsbury
- Silverlake Regional
- Somerset
- Somerset-Berkley Regional
- Somerville
- Southborough
- Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional
- Stoughton
- Sudbury
- Swampscott
- Swansea
- Tantasqua Regional/School Union 61 Districts: Brimfield, Brookfield, Holland, Sturbridge, Wales
- Taunton
- Tewksbury
- Tisbury
- Triton Regional School District: Rowley, Newbury, Salisbury
- Tyngsborough
- Up-Island Regional
- Ware
- Wayland
- Westborough
- Westport
- West Springfield
- Westwood
- Weymouth
- Winchester
- Woburn
- Worcester
If you do not see your district listed and it has made a decision on its local mask mandate, email colleen.cronin@globe.com.
Colleen Cronin can be reached at colleen.cronin@globe.com.