COVID-19 Vaccination Rates For Framingham School Teachers & Principals Decreased In the Past Year

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FRAMINGHAM – With Middlesex County at a high risk for COVID-19 again, SOURCE requested the vaccine rates for Framingham Public School district employees.

The last time the data was made available was in December 2021.

At that time, 94.4% of the Framingham teachers in Unit A contract were vaccinated, but only 67.5% of the food service works in Unit N were vaccinates.

Since then the Unit A, vaccination rate has decreased to 91.6%, but the food service rate has increased to 69.2 percent or about 7 out of every 10 workers.

Principals who were vaccinated went from 100% to 84.6%.

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As of January 2023 the rates are:

Unit A: 91.6% (teachers)
Unit B: 93.6% (administrators)
Unit C: 81.5% (custodians)
Unit N: 69.2% (Food service workers)
Unit P: 84.6% (principals)
Unit S: 90.4% (secretaries)
Unit T: 84.3% (paraprofessionals)
Unit V: 62.9% (non bargaining FPS staff)

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In December 16, 2021 report, the vaccination rates per unit were:

• Unit A: 94.9% (teachers)
• Unit B: 93.4% (administrators)
• Unit C: 74% (custodians)
• Unit N: 67.5% (food service workers)
• Unit P: 100% (principals)
• Unit S: 88.8% (secretaries)
• Unit T: 93.5% (paraprofessionals) –
• Unit V: 71% (non bargaining FPS staff)

The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s Board of Directors voted 46-4 to require vaccinations. The state’s teachers union said local unions should negotiate this with their school district.