The number of students who have tested positive for the coronavirus in public schools across the North Shore has risen to more than 1,100 since the beginning of the school year, according to state Health Department figures.
Public school districts that were analyzed included the Port Washington school district, Roslyn school district, Sewanhaka Central High School District, Mineola school district, East Williston school district, Floral Park-Bellerose school district, Manhasset school district, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school district, Herricks school district, North Shore school district and Great Neck school district.
The three school districts with the most cases among students are Great Neck, with 182, Sewanhaka, with 170, and Port Washington, with 168.
An additional 70 cases were found in North Shore Hebrew Academy (37), North Shore Hebrew Academy High School (15), Silverstein Hebrew Academy (15), and North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School (3), all located on the Great Neck peninsula.
Chaminade High School in Mineola also had 71 positive cases as of Wednesday, an increase of eight over the past week. Saint Mary’s High School in Manhasset had 10 cases and Saint Mary’s Elementary School had eight as of Wednesday.
In Sewanhaka, 149 of the 170 total positive student cases were on-site, while the rest were off-site, according to state figures.
The Mineola school district, with 140, and the North Shore school district, with 107, were the only other school districts on the North Shore with 100 or more total cases. The Manhasset school district, with 91, the Roslyn school district, with 86, and the Herricks school district, with 70, were the only other districts with at least 70 confirmed student cases.
A basketball coach who worked with students in the Roslyn school district outside of school hours has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an email from Superintendent Alison Brown.
“Several concerned parents in our district have reached out to let me know that a basketball coach who has been training several of our Roslyn students outside of school has tested positive,” Brown wrote.
Brown did not reveal the name of the coach or the age range of the students who worked with the coach in the Jan. 21 email.
The East Williston and New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school districts, with 34 cases each, and the Floral Park-Bellerose school district, with 21 cases, accounted for 89 cases.
For more information on how school districts and their schools are faring with the coronavirus, visit https://schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov/#/home.
