A classroom in Charlotte-Mecklenburg s Community House Middle School displays COVID-19 safety signs.
Monday s weekly tally of COVID-19 cases in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools showed the lowest weekly number of employee cases since mid-October when the vast majority of students were still learning remotely.
In the week that ended Friday, 14 of about 19,100 employees tested positive. That’s down from 24 the previous week and a high of 115 cases in mid-January, when community spread was rampant and in-person classes were temporarily canceled.
The declining case count comes amid the convergence of two trends: Most educators have had a chance to be fully vaccinated, and more students than ever are attending in person. In CMS and many surrounding districts, April 12 marked the first time middle and high schools opened under Plan A, with six-foot distancing no longer required.
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Hough High in Cornelius had 425 of its 2,500 students choose Full Remote Academy first semester. For second semester more than 1,100 have opted out of in-person classes.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is seeing an increase in students opting out of in-person classes for the second semester, especially in several large high schools.
Numbers provided by CMS show just over 57,000 students enrolled in the Full Remote Academy for the semester that starts in January, compared with about 50,000 in the semester that s ending. That s 39% of all CMS students next semester.
The increase is driven largely by massive sign-ups at several large high schools. For instance, Hough High in Cornelius went from 425 of its 2,500 students in full-remote first semester to 1,127 second semester.