9 Upper West Side Schools Dealing With COVID-19 Cases: DOE

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — One week after the city began vaccinating youngsters against COVID-19, nearly 10 schools on the Upper West Side are still swept up in virus-prevention protocols, according to the Department of Education.

As of Thursday morning, nine schools in the neighborhood have imposed either partial quarantines or full classroom closures due to coronavirus exposure, according to the interactive map from the Department of Education.

Partial quarantines

These schools were under partial classroom quarantines, in which only a subset of students in a classroom are required to quarantine while others can keep attending school.

Booker T. Washington Middle School: 103 West 107th Street

• The UWS school has one partial classroom quarantine that started on Nov. 15 and will end on Nov. 22.

P.S. 75 Emily Dickinson School: 735 West End Avenue

• The UWS school has one partial classroom quarantine that started on Nov. 13 and will end on Nov. 19.

Manhattan School For Children: 154 West 93rd Street

• The UWS school has two partial classroom quarantines — the first ended on Thursday and the second will end on Nov. 27. The school also had a full classroom closure that ended on Thursday.

Lafayette Academy: 154 West 93rd Street

• The UWS school, in the same building as Manhattan School for Children, has two classrooms affected by COVID-19 cases but the Department of Education does not specify to what degree.

P.S. 87 William Sherman: 160 West 87th Street

• The UWS school has two classrooms under partial quarantine, both of which will end on Nov. 20.

Special Music Shcool: 129 West 67th Street

• The UWS school has one classroom under partial quarantine that started on Nov. 16 and will end on Nov. 22. It also has a classroom fully closed that will reopen on Nov. 26.

LaGuardia High School: 100 Amsterdam Avenue

• The UWS school has two classrooms under partial quarantine, both of which are slated to end on Nov. 19.

Full Classroom Closures

A classroom closure takes place when a student, teacher, or another type of classroom-based educator tests positive, and it is ruled that the entire classroom needs to quarantine.

Success Academy Charter School: 145 West 84th Street

• The UWS school has one classroom closed that will reopen on Nov. 21.

Nursery School at the West Side YMCA: 5 West 63rd Street

• The UWS school has one classroom closed that will reopen on Nov. 20.

Once a common headache for parents, full school closures have become far less common this year thanks to a revised policy by the DOE.

The vaccine rollout for children aged 5-11 began last Monday thanks to federal approval. Some school-based vaccination sites were quickly plagued by long lines and supply shortfalls — though Mayor Bill de Blasio chalked that up as a positive sign of strong interest.

"We have been pleasantly surprised at how big the response has been at the school level," he said last week. About 17,000 kids got their shots over the first three-day period.

Book a vaccine appointment at vaccinefinder.nyc.gov, or for state-run sites, ny.gov/vaccine.

Patch reporter Nick Garber contributed to this report