Grassy Creek Elementary School reported its first two positive COVID-19 cases Monday and Tuesday.
Clark-Pleasant schools has now had eight positive cases, almost half of the 17 reported cases in Johnson County schools since they reopened. The Clark-Pleasant cases include three staff members and five students, although one of those students has been attending school virtually since the start of the school year.
One of the Grassy Creek Elementary School students who tested positive for the virus Monday was last in school Aug. 7, Superintendent Patrick Spray said in an email to parents and guardians.
“The student began exhibiting symptoms the morning of Monday, Aug. 10, and did not attend any classes last week,” Spray said. “This is a great example of parents who kept their child home when showing symptoms and were proactive in limiting the spread of the virus. Due to their actions, contact tracing and additional exclusions of students from school were not necessary.”
The second Grassy Creek Elementary School student, who tested positive Tuesday, was last in school Friday, meaning staff and students who were within six feet of the student for more than 15 minutes will have to quarantine. Those people have been notified, Spray said in an email to parents.
The siblings of both students are quarantining, Spray said.
Clark-Pleasant schools also alerted parents Monday of the first positive case at Pleasant Crossing Elementary School. There, a parent had her children tested after she tested positive. Her children, one of whom was a Pleasant Crossing Elementary School student, then tested positive. The Pleasant Crossing student last went to school Aug. 7, and thus no other students will have to quarantine, Spray said in another email to parents and guardians.
All three Clark-Pleasant students who tested positive will have to quarantine for 10 days since the date of their positive test, and will be able to return to school afterwards if they have gone at least 24 hours without a fever or fever-reducing medication, Spray said.
