All Ridgefield schools return to hybrid model Macklin Reid FacebookTwitterEmail Ridgefield Superintendent of Schools Susie Da SilvaContributed photo RIDGEFIELD — It will be “hybrid learning” — meaning smaller groups of students will be in school buildings at different times — when classes resume in Ridgefield schools on Monday, Jan. 4. “Reducing person density in our school buildings is a mitigation strategy to further prevent the spread of COVID-19,” said Aaron Crook, the school system’s COVID-19 health and safety liaison. “... We will also be communicating additional information to RPS families and faculty about mitigation efforts before we return to hybrid learning on Jan. 4.” While Ridgefield High School and the two middle schools had been on hybrid learning before vacation, for most of the last two months the elementary schools had been inviting a full compliment of students in to classes every day — although some families preferred “remote learning” over the internet.