Coronavirus Cases Grow Within St. Charles School District

ST. CHARLES, IL — In the first 10 days of the new school year, District 303 officials have notified parents of at least nine positive coronavirus tests among students, staff and people associated with its schools.

After many changes to the district’s plans for reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, elementary and middle school students returned to classrooms Aug. 19. Just two days later, officials sent the first of several letters telling parents of positive tests.

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District 303 officials said Aug. 21 that two people at Fox Ridge Elementary and one at Thompson Middle School tested positive for the coronavirus. Officials sent another letter Monday after learning of two more positive tests at Thompson and one at Lincoln Elementary School, as previously reported.

The district also sent a letter Monday to parents of students at Davis Primary School after someone at the school tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a report by the Kane County Chronicle.

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District officials notified Davis parents a week prior that two people who were at the school tested positive for the coronavirus. One person was a staff member who was in the building after the end of the school day, while the other was in the school for a brief period, the report states.

The district has not disclosed whether the other cases were among students or staff.

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As of Thursday, there are at least nine positive coronavirus tests among students, staff and people associated with District 303 schools.

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Any student or employee will be required to quarantine if they spent at least 15 minutes within 6 feet of one of the people who tested positive, officials said in the letters to parents. The district is deep-cleaning and disinfecting areas of the school where those who tested positive spent time, officials said.

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