Upper West Side School Building Closed Due To Coronavirus Case

Upper West Side NY

09 November, 2020

12:34 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An Upper West Side school building was temporarily shut down after at least one coronavirus case was confirmed on Monday, according to the Department of Education. The 100 West 84th Street building, which houses two schools, P.S. 9 Sarah Anderson School, and the Center School, has been closed down for 24-hours, according to the DOE map. The interactive map says that the case on Monday came from P.S. 9, but a classroom was also closed down within the Center School on Saturday. That classroom will get reopened on Nov. 18, according to the Department of Education. Sarah Anderson is a public elementary school that goes from kindergarten through fifth grade and has a slightly over 500 students. Its neighbor in the building, the Center School, is a middle school that goes fifth through eighth grade and has roughly 260 students. Both schools are part of District 3. Per DOE policy, a school building is closed when there are at least two cases from different classrooms, from an activity or exposure outside of school or when the link between them cannot be determined, according to the DOE. In each case, the building is temporarily closed while the DOE starts an investigation into the cases. In the scenario when a link between the cases cannot be determined, the school is closed for 14 days, according to the guidelines. Check the full map of active cases here. Patch reporter Anna Quinn contributed to this report.