Enid Public Schools Student Quarantine Number Rises Friday

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(Enid, OK) The number of Enid Public Schools students and staff in quarantine or positive-case isolation due to COVID-19 rose slightly on Friday, according to the district’s website.

There are 571 people in either close-contact quarantine or positive-test isolation, up 16 from Thursday. More than half of those are students and staff at Adams Elementary School, which went to distance learning on the 14th after a staff member tested positive last week. All 297 Adams students will continue distance learning until at least Sept. 24.

Enid High School had the most positive cases in the district, with seven, four students and three staff members. The school also has the most number of students, aside from Adams, in close-contact quarantine at 74, up from 62 on Wednesday.

Emerson Middle School has the next highest total of quarantines and isolations, with 39 students and staff out of school.

Emerson has three positive cases, all of them being students. Longfellow Middle School has two positive cases, both students. Other schools in the area with two positive cases are Monroe, one student and one staff member, and two students at Taft Elementary School.