Avon Elementary and Berry Creek Middle School recently sent COVID-19 notices to community members after learning of three positive cases, all last in school Tuesday, March 2.
A staff member at Avon Elementary School tested positive for the virus and 12 students and one staff member have been directed to quarantine, Eagle County Schools said Monday.
At Berry Creek, one staff member and one student tested positive for the virus, with one staff member and one student directed to quarantine.
Battle Mountain High School was notified of a student testing positive over the weekend, but contact tracing determined no other students or staff will need to quarantine.
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On Friday, the Eagle County School District announced that Avon Elementary, Eagle Valley High School and Red Canyon High School recently sent COVID-19 notices to their communities after being notified of positive cases by Public Health. Across the three schools, 23 students will quarantine.
In each incident, contact tracing determined that those in close contact with a positive case need to quarantine. Those needing to quarantine received orders to follow from Public Health specific to their incident. Students in quarantine will be able to return to school following the February break on Monday, Feb. 22.
Avon Elementary School sent notifications home last week after learning that a student tested positive. The positive case was last in school on Monday, Feb. 8. Eleven students will quarantine related to this incident. No staff members were determined to be close contacts.
Pearl Hess and her first grade students at Avon Elementary School. Photo courtesy of Eagle County Schools.
Eagle County Schools is giving a big “thank you” to Kenzi’s Causes, a Denver-area nonprofit, for gifts to students at Avon Elementary School this holiday season.
Kenzi’s Causes, founded by Jessica Bachus in 2007 after her daughter was born stillborn, donated gifts to students at the school, providing supply-packed school backpacks and new toys.
The organization previously provided 60 backpacks full of new school supplies to Avon Elementary students at the beginning of the school year, but redoubled its support this holiday season, donating holiday gifts for all 300-plus Avon Elementary students last month.