A parent of students at both Glenview School District 34 and Glenbrook High School District 225 tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials from each school district reported.
Glenview SD34 is a feeder elementary school district to SD225, but it was not clear if the diagnosis was for one parent with children in both districts or if the positive test involved two different people.
Either way, neither parent has been to any school buildings for two weeks, officials for each of the affected school districts said in separate news releases.
The Illinois Department of Public Health “did not recommend testing or self-isolation for students outside of the patient’s family at this time,” SD34 spokeswoman Cathy Kedjidjian said in an email Monday.
All SD34 school buildings are closed for deep cleaning and the administration building will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday, Kedjidjian said.
Glenview School District 34 enrolls over 4,700 students in eight schools.
The children whose parent tested positive are students at Glen Grove Eelementary and Attea Mmiddle schools, officials said.
On Tuesday, which is Election Day, polling places at D34 buildings will be open, but those will be isolated and deep cleaned as well, Kedjidjian said.
SD225, which includes more than Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South high schools, also reported Monday that a student’s parent tested positive for coronavirus, but that parent has not been in either of the school buildings for more than two weeks. That time period “is beyond the incubation period of the virus,” district officials said in a release.
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School officials did not disclose which high school the parent’s student attends.
“We know that this announcement may cause alarm and we continue to encourage our district families to follow the Center for Disease Control guidelines for prevention and symptom awareness,” school officials said in a message on the SD225 website.
The Illinois Department of Public Health is also not recommending that staff and students self-isolate in this case either, according to the district.
“With the number of cases in Illinois growing daily and our schools already being closed, we do not plan to communicate about each confirmation,” school officials said in the release . “We will, however, plan to communicate should the situation affect our ongoing services such as meal pick-up.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all of the state’s public and private school districts to cancel classes at school buildings through March 30. He announced, however, that families would be able to pick up meals at the schools during the closure.