LICKING COUNTY, Ohio — Licking Valley High School is moving to remote learning on Tuesday after a spike in COVID-19 cases caused more than 200 students to go into quarantine.
According to a letter addressed to families, Superintendent Dave Hile said the high school will go to remote learning until Sept. 10 because so many students have been forced into quarantine.
Hile said, as of Monday, 26 students have tested positive at the high school and nearly 200 are currently in quarantine. That's up from the 33 positive tests reported in all of last year, it reads in the letter.
According to the Ohio Department of Education, there were 529 students enrolled at the school during the 2019-20 year.
The superintendent added the latest spike has forced the district to quarantine more students in the first two weeks of school this year than they did all of last year as well.
The Newark Advocate says the Licking Valley community is seeing a spike in positive cases, with Licking County reporting 594 active cases on Monday.
The announcement comes as hundreds of students across other central Ohio school districts are also being quarantined due to COVID-19.
At Gahanna-Jefferson Schools, there are already more than 600 students and staff in quarantine and 30 COVID-19 cases.
On Monday, Nationwide Children's Hospital held a press conference saying they have seen a rise in children hospitalized with COVID-19 and respiratory illnesses.
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