New Dashboard Visualizes How School Metrics Apply To Each County

Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Health Authority and Willamette Education Service District collaboration provides clear look at COVID-19 case rate and test positivity rate in each county.

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE), Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the Willamette Education Service District (ESD) are teaming up to provide a dashboard that makes it easy to see how close a county is to meeting metrics necessary for in-person instruction and what exceptions can be considered. The dashboard uses OHA data, is hosted by Willamette ESD and linked on the ODE website.

The dashboard allows the user to select their county in order to see the case rate and test positivity rate which determine what forms of in-person learning can take place and what exceptions are allowed within the statewide school metrics framework. It shows the trend in the data over a three week period and includes graphics telling the user whether conditions have been met.

The dashboard is updated weekly, on Wednesdays, after OHA releases the source data. ODE would like to thank staff at OHA and Willamette ESD who have been working tirelessly to create this visualization tool.