LONG BEACH, Calif. (KNX) — An eruption of COVID-19 cases among students in the Long Beach district forced officials to shut down in-person learning for several classrooms at three elementary schools.
Classes at Longfellow, Lowell and Carver will learn remotely until the infected students are finished quarantining, school officials said.
This isn’t the first classroom closure in the district. Up to 10 classwide closures have occurred in the district’s elementary schools during the school year so far, according to the Long Beach Post News.
On the school district’s COVID-19 dashboard, the school reported 1,139 COVID-19 reported over the course of the school year so far. Of those cases, over 1,050 were students, over 80 were employees, and three were visitors or vendors.
Brian Moskovitz, the school district’s superintendent, said the district has communicated with the Health Department in the past regarding COVID cases in the district, primarily whether or not in-person learning should temporarily shut down.
“Any time there’s a positive COVID case in any of our classes we communicate with the Health Department, and we’ve had a few instances where the Health Department recommends we close a class,” he told the Long Beach Post News.
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