Butler Area School District students will have in-person instruction when they return from winter break Jan. 4.

All elementary and Center Avenue Community School students will return to in-person instruction and secondary students will have in-person instruction through the cohort model in which half of the students come to school for in-person instruction at a time.

Special education students will continue with in-person instruction.

In a message posted on the school district website Friday, Superintendent Brian White said in-person instruction will take place as long as enough staff is available and the district meets the COVID-19 data parameters issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.