TAMPA — It's been two weeks since school started for many in the Bay area., and all seven school districts in our area have some form of COVID-19 dashboard that is either tracking daily case numbers or people in quarantine.

Hillsborough County, having the largest school district, has had the most reported cases and kids in quarantine.

Their dashboard shows a progressive rise in cases over the first two weeks of school.

The first week ended with 143 cases on that Friday, reflective of coronavirus cases in students. The district reported 44 cases of staff with coronavirus that day.

The next week it climbed to an average of about 375 cases a day, which prompted a 30-day mask mandate.

Tuesday’s numbers are still updating but show 252 student cases.

Monday's data showed 585 student cases.

It comes to an estimate of about 4,076 total cases of students and staff with COVID-19, resulting in almost 12,000 people quarantined.

The Pinellas district dashboard tells us more than 1,013 total cases, with about 2,681 in quarantine.

Pasco and Manatee County schools are reporting its daily case counts by school.

Polk and Hernando are reporting cases weekly.

Citrus reported about 444 total cases at last check.

Altogether, there are more than 9,000 reported coronavirus cases in all seven school districts in two weeks.

The Hillsborough Dashboard also shows the district recorded about 8,771 cases from March 2020 to July 2021.

District officials told Spectrum Bay News 9 that they expect the number of people in quarantine will start to stabilize because masks will allow less people to isolate, according to school guidelines taken from the CDC.

Those guidelines state if anyone is in close contact or within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student or staff where both correctly used masks, they will be excluded from quarantine.