The Lambton-Kent District School Board says the vast majority of parents surveyed will be sending their children to regular classes this year.
The board said it was able to contact around 10,000 of 13,000 families across the district, and found that 90 per cent of them will be opting for in-person learning.
Director of Education John Howitt said parents also have the option to keep their kids at home for online, teacher-led studies.
He said they have the resources in place to accommodate those requests.
"One of the challenges with the personalized requests is that timetabling may be adjusted, and some options that students had previously selected in the spring may not be available due to the changes in enrollment within the building."
High school will look a lot different this year for students across the public board.
The year is being broken down into four 44-day quadmesters, featuring two classes lasting 150 minutes each.
Traditionally, there would be two longer semesters with four classes of around 45 minutes each.
Students will still be required to have 110 hours per subject to graduate.
Safety precautions include the wearing of masks upon entry to school, restricting locker access, having one-way hall traffic, eating lunch in the classroom, and increased sanitation measures.
Lambton Medical Officer of Health Dr. Sudit Ranade said the local health unit is actively speaking with school boards across the community.
"Remember that this is a complex issue where the ministry is setting policies and direction, the boards are required to implement them, and our lens on this is really sort of how to mitigate the risk of the choices that they make in terms of running schools."
Ranade said the most important preventative measure to keep transmission low in schools is to keep transmission low in the community.
"Then the next most important mechanism is to prevent ill people from attending the facility, and then once you're in the facility, based on whatever model you're running, then the measures are distancing, the use of face coverings where you can't distance, and the use of PPE to protect employees."
Dr. Ranade said all of those measures are thought to be less effective than keeping community transmission low outside of the school and having effective screening to prevent sick kids from being in the school.
He called them the very end-point measures, rather than the things you can do more preventatively.
Lambton Public Health has distributed a letter to parents across the region to help guide their decision making on sending their children back to school.
More details are available in the board's "Reopening Our Schools" document, released Thursday.