No classroom closed at Kentwood High due to COVID-19 | Update

Published 12:38 pm Thursday, November 4, 2021

There was no classroom closure at Kentwood High School in Covington due to COVID-19 after all.

The Kent School District on Thursday evening, Nov. 4 corrected its COVID-19 School Status Map and removed Kentwood as a school with a classroom closure. The district had listed the closure as starting Nov. 1.

Kentwood staff read a story posted earlier Thursday on the Kent Reporter website and reached out to district staff to correct the information.

“Kentwood staff saw the story and worked with our health services team to clarify the dates of infection and exposure of the person with a positive case, and a classroom was not closed based on that information,” said district spokesperson Melissa Laramie in a Nov. 4 email.

Laramie said she has corrected the website’s COVID-19 School Status Map.

Latest COVID-19 numbers

Since Oct. 1, the district has had 93 students with COVID-19, with 16 cases still active as of Nov. 1, according to the Kent School District COVID-19 Reporting Dashboard.

Twenty-three staff members have had COVID-19, with four active cases.

The district has more than 23,000 students at 43 schools.