All Oak Park Unified School District’s students were sent home in late March of 2020 due to impending threats of COVID-19. 

Students and staff members left their schools with the hopes of returning after spring break. Seven months later schools are still closed and online learning has become the new normal. 

Oak Park High School has become a ghost town with the eerie emptiness. Where there was once hundreds of students, there are now unused lockers kept shut with zip-ties. Instead of posters and signs for upcoming rallies and events taped on the walls of the C-Building, safety precautions are scattered about. No one is allowed on campus without a mask covering their smile, and caution tape surrounds the office, only allowing access by waiting outside the front office door at a folding table. 

Hopefully, OPHS can regain its livelihood soon, but with COVID-19 still a threat, it seems like it will remain a ghost town for now.