50 Students Quarantining After Exposures At 3 Reading Schools

READING, MA — Dozens of students across three Reading schools are quarantining due to in-person coronavirus exposure, Superintendent John Doherty said Sunday.

Two Parker Middle School students who were in person last week tested positive, resulting in 25 students being quarantined. One in-person Killam School student tested positive, which led to 22 students and six staff members being quarantined.

One Wood End employee came back with a positive PCR test after a pooled test was inconclusive, Doherty said. As a result, three students and two staff members were quarantined.

The following positive cases were also reported:

• 2 RMHS students both remote, no in school close contacts
• 1 RMHS student who was remote, but came to an in school activity. The district is engaging in contact tracing right now.
• 1 Parker student remote, no in school close contacts
• 1 Birch Meadow student remote, no in school close contacts
• 1 Killam staff member who was remote this past week. Will be quarantined this week.

Pooled testing last week yielded 93 negative pools, one positive pool related to athletics – all retested negative – and one inclusive related to the Wood End staff member, who retested positive.