Superintendent of Johnston Schools Bernard DiLullo confirmed to the Sun Rise that a student-teacher at Sarah Dyer Barnes Elementary School and a staff member at Winsor Hill Elementary have tested positive for COVID-19.
DiLullo explained that the Barnes student-teacher had tested negative last Thursday and came to work on Monday without exhibiting any symptoms. However, DiLullo said the man found out some of the people he had been around over the weekend tested positive and notified the department. DiLullo said the student-teacher was not in the building after Monday.
DiLullo said the classroom was closed and the other teacher and all students would have to quarantine until Sept. 29.
“He was in the classroom and our procedure is that our teachers are keeping distance from the kids,” DiLullo said in a phone call on Friday. “Everybody is wearing masks. The fact he was in the classroom for most of the day on Monday triggered the quarantine for the students for 14 days. They’ll participate virtually.”
DiLullo said Thursday that no one else at Barnes had tested positive.
One of the staffers at Winsor Hill had started showing symptoms and tested positive, and DiLullo said she had been around a group of teachers. They are all quarantined for 14 days.
The state Department of Health on Wednesday launched a new data table on its website with case number ranges for the school communities in which positive tests have occurred.
In addition to Barnes and Winsor Hill, the table says fewer than five positive cases have been identified among those engaged in in-person and hybrid learning at Ferri Middle School between Sept. 14 and Sept. 23.
Fewer than five positive tests have been identified among students and educators engaged in distance learning over the same timeframe at Johnston high School, Ferri and Barnes, according to the data.
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