A Roy A. Hunt Elementary School student is quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, New Kensington-Arnold School District announced.
Students in third through sixth grades attend the elementary school in Arnold. Superintendent Jon Banko would not say in which grade the infected student is enrolled.
Banko did say the student is not in third grade. In October, Banko acknowledged third-grade students in a combination social studies/science class were being seated closer than the recommended six feet apart because of the number of students as of Oct. 5.
Oct. 5 was the date students who started the school year remotely were given the first opportunity to return to in-person instruction.
The student will remain out of school until medically permitted to return, the district said in a notice.
New Kensington-Arnold started the school year with students attending school entirely online or entirely in buildings.
All district students are learning remotely this week, after the state Department of Education recommended Westmoreland County school districts move to remote instruction to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
Classes are not in session Tuesday because of Election Day.
District officials previously said they plan to return to in-person instruction Nov. 9.
“We are planning/hoping to return to our previous face-to-face model next week,” Banko said. “Should there be a reason to close next week, we will make the decision and release the notice ASAP.”
Including the student at Hunt, Banko said the district has had three recent covid-19 cases, the others being staff members, one at Hunt and one at the high school.
An unidentified high school employee was hospitalized with covid-19 in March. That employee had been on a band boosters trip to New York City from March 5-8.
