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DeKalb County public school COVID-19 cases, quarantine numbers for week ending Sept. 17

52 COVID-19 cases in DeKalb, Sycamore, Genoa-Kingston districts, with more than 660 students quarantined in local school districts as of Sept. 10

By Kelsey Rettke
School Bus at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb, IL on Thursday, May 13, 2021.

File photo - School Bus at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb, IL on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Mark Black for Shaw Local)

Over the past week, more than 660 local students were reported in quarantine due to possible COVID-19 exposure, and 52 more virus cases were identified in DeKalb County schools according to data released Tuesday.

COVID-19 case and quarantine data released by DeKalb, Sycamore and Genoa-Kingston schools is provisional, with most recent statistics varying by district.

There is a 5.4% seven-day positivity rate within DeKalb School District 428 communities, including DeKalb, Malta and Cortland. From Sept. 11 through last Friday, Sept. 17, there were four positive staff cases and 26 positive student cases of COVID-19 in the DeKalb School District. No staff members were quarantined, while 539 students were in quarantine districtwide as of last Friday.

According to enrollment numbers from the most recent available Illinois Report Card data, DeKalb School District’s quarantine rate is about 8.16% of its student body population which was about 6,600 in the 2019-2020 school year.

In the Sycamore School District as of last week, 17 students tested positive for COVID-19, with 33 students in quarantine due to close contact and 106 students in quarantine. No staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, though one is in quarantine. Sycamore School District’s quarantine rate is about 3.74% of its student body of 3,713, according to the most recent available enrollment data.

Genoa-Kingston School District Brent O’Daniell sent out a Tweet last Friday, Sept. 17 stating that four students tested positive for COVID-19, as did one staff member. As of Sept. 16, there are also 18 students quarantined and one staff person quarantined. According to enrollment data, that means about 1.13% of Genoa-Kingston School District’s student population of 1,587 is in quarantine.

Each school district updates its COVID-19 reports at least once a week. In DeKalb, data is collected each Friday and will be updated on the district’s website each Monday, according to the website. In Sycamore, the COVID-19 online data page is updated weekly. Genoa-Kingston’s data is released weekly via a Twitter post from Superintendent Brent O’Daniell and is also shared on the district’s website.

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