Students have been back in school for a short time since the schools were shut down last March due to the COVID-19 pandemic and some Connecticut school districts have sent students back home due to cases of the virus.
Some schools are closing and switching to remote learning while others are staying open and sending small groups home to quarantine.
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Avon
A member of the Pine Grove School community has tested positive for COVID-19. Those who may have had close contact with this person will engage in remote learning through the end of the week. The classroom and common areas affected have been cleaned and disinfected, school officials said.
Beacon Falls
An assistant football coach in Region 16 has tested positive for COVID-19, and 26 players who had contact with him have been instructed to quarantine, district officials said Thursday. The student-athletes have been tested and are awaiting results. No other COVID-19 cases have been reported in the district, which includes Beacon Falls and Prospect.
Berlin
Two members of the Berlin Public Schools community have tested positive for COVID-19. District officials said the two individuals were last at Griswold Elementary School on Friday, Sept. 18, and that close contacts are being identified.
Bridgeport
The Paul Lawrence Dunbar School in Bridgeport was closed for in-person learning through Sept. 29, according to the district website. All classes will be remote during that time.
Colchester
Three staff members at Colchester Elementary School have tested positive for COVID-19 and other staff and some students who came in contact with them have been quarantined, Superintendent Jeffrey Burt said in a post on the school district's website last week.
The school said it plans to reopen on Oct. 5, if it is safe to do so.
Fairfield
This brings the total number of students and staff in quarantine to more than 80.
“For the second week in a row, we find ourselves having to deal with the consequences of our students participating in weekend activities without masks and without appropriate social distancing. In this case, it wasn’t parties, but seemingly innocent activities like playing pick-up football or basketball, or any sponsored event,” Supt. Mike Cummings wrote Wednesday.
Fairfield First Selectwoman Brenda Kupchick said there are six positive cases tied to the high school community: five at Fairfield Ludlowe High School and one at Fairfield Prep.
The infected individuals are all currently in isolation.
During contact tracing, the health department discovered there were at least six gatherings over the weekend of high school students that might have led to these cases. Four of the events were attended by students who then tested positive for the virus.
Glastonbury
Of the students in quarantine, 16 are from Glastonbury High School, seven are from Smith Middle School, one is from Gideon Welles School, and one is from Buttonball Elementary School, according to school officials.
One staff member from Hopewell School and another from the bus yard are also in quarantine, the school district said.
One student at Glastonbury High School has tested positive for COVID-19.
The numbers listed for people in quarantine indicate people who were in direct contact with someone who tested positive, according to the school district.
Hamden
A student at Hamden High School has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Superintendent Jody Goeler.
The school district has reached out to anyone who had close contact with the student and provided them instructions on what steps to take, Goeler said in an email to parents. Students and staff who have not been in closed contact will remain in school.
Helen Street School in Hamden also reported a positive case earlier this month.
Hebron
A person who works in a support capacity for Hebron schools has tested positive for coronavirus, according to school superintendent Thomas Baird.
The individual was last at Hebron Elementary School and Gilead Hill School on Sept. 15, Baird said. The person will remain in self-isolation for 10 days.
The district and Chatham Health determined that no students or staff were at risk for exposure to the virus in connection to the case.
New Britain
There are confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 at five schools in New Britain, according to the school district.
The positive cases are at New Britain High School, Pulaski Middle School, Lincoln Elementary School, Holmes Elementary School, and Chamberlain Elementary School.
For the high school and Lincoln Elementary School, the cases were determined to be isolated and those schools will be open on Wednesday.
Because the district learned about the cases at Pulaski Middle School and Holmes Elementary school late in the day on Tuesday and they had not completed contact tracing, those schools moved to remote learning on Wednesday and Thursday, the district said. Those schools will return to in-person learning on Friday.
The district was notified about the case at Chamberlain Elementary on Wednesday afternoon. The New Britain Department of Public Health determined the individual had no close contacts with anyone else in the building and the school will remain fully open, according to the district.
Also in New Britain, a member of the CLIMB Program tested positive for COVID-19, according to the school district.
The school district was notified of the positive case last Friday afternoon and the person has been told to remain home and quarantine for 14 days.
The last day this person was at the program was on Sept. 21, school officials said.
New Canaan
In New Canaan, 53 students are quarantining at home after four classmates tested positive for coronavirus. The students who are quarantining were determined to have close contact with the students who tested positive. Those four students are not included in the quarantine count, according to the superintendent. A staff member at the high school is also in quarantine.
Three of the four cases at the high school appear to be connected through youth sports activities, according to the superintendent.
A staff member at West Elementary School is quarantining as well. It was not clear why that person is in quarantine.
North Branford
School officials said administrators were notified that a member of the North Branford High School community tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and immediate action was taken to isolate, perform contact tracing and notify anyone who was in close contact with this person.
New Britain
New Britain has multiple COVID-19 cases in the district. On Friday they reported cases at the Lincoln KEY Program, Roosevelt Early Learning Center, and Smith Elementary School.
Roosevelt Early Learning Center and two classrooms at the Lincoln KEY Program will move to remote learning for two weeks, resuming in-person on Monday, October 19. There will be no closures at Smith.
Norwich
Norwich Public Schools announce all students will move to remote learning for two weeks beginning on Friday. There are no active cases in the schools, but the city has seen a climb in COVID-19 cases and administrators made the decision to keep students learning from home as a precaution.
Plainfield
A staff member within the Plainfield High School community has tested positive for COVID-19.
The district said the person has been instructed to remain home and quarantine for 14 days.
The last day the person was in Plainfield High School was Sept. 21.
Plainfield High School was closed from Monday, Sept. 28 through Wednesday, Sept. 30. Volleyball was also canceled for the week.
Preston
The infected person has been instructed to remain home in self-isolation for 14 days and family members have also been instructed to self-quarantine and get tested.
Simsbury
A support staff member at Simsbury High School tested positive for COVID-19. After determining that the staff member had no close contacts while working at the school, the district determined the school can remain open.
Southington
All classes at Southington High School will be remote from Monday, Oct. 5 through Friday, Oct. 9.
The school district is not able to fill that many positions with substitute teachers, according to Superintendent Timothy Connellan. The district hopes to have students return to in-person learning on Tuesday, Oct. 13, barring any new positive cases.
A person at Hatton Elementary School also tested positive for coronavirus. That person and anyone who it is determined were in close contact with them, will quarantine at home for 14 days. Students and staff who did not come in close contact with the infected person will be at school for in-person learning.
Stratford
Bunnell High School closed after two additional people tested positive for COVID-19 and plans to resume the hybrid model on Oct. 12 .
School officials said in a letter on Sept. 25 that the high school was closed and students will be distance learning for two weeks.
School officials said they were notified of two additional positive COVID-19 cases within the Bunnell High School community. Anyone who was directly in contact with either person who tested positive will be contacted and should remain in quarantine for 14 days, they said.
The plan is to resume the hybrid model on Oct. 12, school officials added.
Trumbull
Hillcrest Middle School was closed to all students because of a case of COVID-19 and school will be remote while the school is closed and students in Cohort B will be able to re-enter the building on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to a statement from the principal.
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A student at Washington Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19, school officials said on Friday. That student's specific class will transition to distance learning through Monday, Oct. 12.
On Wednesday district officials announced a student at North End Middle School tested positive for the coronavirus. That student is virtual and has not been in the building this year.
District officials announced Tuesday that two people at Chase Elementary School have tested positive for COVID-19. Both classes will move to distance learning through Friday, Oct. 9.
A staff member at Waterbury Arts Magnet School has tested positive for the coronavirus. The school shifted to remote learning through Thursday while the building was cleaned and disinfected and contact tracers notify those affected.
School officials said last Monday that one in-person student at Washington Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19. The specific cohort affected is distance learning through Tuesday, Sept. 29.
Over the weekend, school officials said one person taking in-person classes at Wilson Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19. The person's class/cohort will transition to distance learning through Friday, Oct. 2.
Two people at Wilby High School who are attending school virtually also tested positive. Those two people have not been in the building and have been distance learning since the first day of school, officials added.
The city's contact tracing team is working to identify close contacts involved with the in-person positive case.
Waterford
The Friendship School in Waterford is reporting a case of COVID-19 and said the person who tested positive has been instructed to remain home in self-isolation for 10 days.
School officials said in a message to members of the school community that they were notified Monday that a member of our school community has tested positive for coronavirus and that family members have also been instructed to self-quarantine and get tested.
Anyone who is considered a close contact with the person has been contacted or will be contacted by school or local health officials
