NBC NewsVanLeer said Peyton died less than two weeks after he last attended class.
The boy's last day of eighth grade was on October 22. He began a quarantine on October 26.
Within a week, his symptoms worsened. Baumgarth was hospitalized and over the weekend succumbed to complications of Covid-19, his family told the school district.
The school said it would provide counselors for children when they returned to in-person class on Wednesday, and asked for the community's "thoughts and prayers."
The state with the same Governor that said children "will get over it" in regards to getting COVID from going back to school.