COVID Outbreaks Send 3 Council Rock Classrooms Virtual

CHURCHVILLE, PA — Three classrooms in the Council Rock School District have gone virtual after students in the classrooms tested positive for COVID-19.

Maureen M. Welch Elementary School, located in Churchville, experienced infectious cases while students were present in the classroom, according to Dr. Robert Fraser, Superintendent of Schools for the Council Rock School District.

Elementary classrooms will be converted to an all-virtual setting when those classrooms experience three or more cases during the five day school week, according to Fraser. This is in compliance with the recent school board decision to allow the school administration to do this in an effort to lower cases and protect students, as Fraser mentioned at last night's School Board Meeting.

"Unfortunately, we've needed to do so with three of our classrooms, including two classrooms here in the past couple of days," Fraser said at the meeting.

Fraser said that all three cases did, in fact, happen at Maureen M. Welch Elementary.

For more information on Council Rock School District's COVID-19 safety procedures, visit their website for their Health and Safety Plan Summary.