School Closings by State

[GhostRN]

CA (2) One San Diego school will close its doors to students immediately as a precaution after one of its students had a confirmed case of swine flu, San Diego health officials said Monday.Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa is being closed as a precaution.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-Schools-.html
a school near Sacramento, will be closed until at least Thursday while health officials determine if a seventh-grader has the flu.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
CT (3) No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, but two "probable" cases have been identified in Stratford and Southbury, and East Haddam schools will be closed Wednesday after two members of a family that recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico, became ill, officials said.
NY (1) In New York, St. Francis Preparatory is closed for several days after reports of eight confirmed cases among students and possibly more. Testing continues on dozens of other students.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/St. Francis is the largest private Catholic high school in the nation, with 2,700 students http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories...n-US-no-deaths
OH (1)An elementary school in Ohio is closed for the week after a student was found with the virus after a family trip to Mexico. Authorities say he has a mild case and is recovering at home.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/
SC (1) An independent Newberry school is closed today after 13 students and three chaperones returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
A message on the Newberry Academy's Web site (http://www.newberryacademy.com/) says an announcement will be made by 3 p.m. on whether school will be closed tomorrow.http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1297415.html
TX (16+) (District mentioned)
SAN ANTONIO - The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a district-wide closure.
http://www.woai.com/content/health/s...SuvkrFQ9Q.cspx
Near San Antonio, 14 schools will be closed for at least the next week after two students at a high school caught the virus.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Saturday that Byron Steele High School in Cibolo will temporarily close as public health and school officials work to keep swine influenza from spreading.
The school closing is effective immediately, and will last for at least 10 days. The school's extracurricular activities also will be cancelled.
http://www.ksat.com/health/19290045/detail.html
Texas state health authorities on Saturday ordered a high school near San Antonio closed indefinitely after a third student showed symptoms of swine flu, which has killed dozens of people in Mexico.http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53P0B120090426?rpc=64
Other: 4/27 Schools in New York, Texas, California and Ohio where students were found or were suspected to have swine flu were closing. http://www.wwj.com/Swine-Flu-Cases-R...States/4279489

***Note schools may re-open - the list above will not track that. This list will be updated as able and as others reply to this post. Corrections/adjustments welcome.

2/2/07 :Feb. 1 — In the event of a severe flu outbreak, schools should close for up to three months, ballgames and movies should be canceled, and working hours should be staggered so subways and buses are less crowded, the federal government said Thursday in issuing new pandemic flu guidelines to states and cities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/health/02flu.html

4/9/08 : Closing schools during an influenza pandemic could prevent one in seven cases of flu, British researchers said on Wednesday in a study that suggests such action would have less impact than some other estimates.

But they said school closings would create significant hardships for working parents, who might be forced to create informal daycare arrangements that would undo efforts to contain the spread of flu.

"We find school closings would be less effective than some studies have suggested," said Dr. Simon Cauchemez of Imperial College London, whose study appears in the journal Nature.

"The main effect would be to slow and flatten the outbreak -- so the numbers becoming ill in the worst week of the outbreak might be reduced by up to 40 percent, reducing peak demand on health-care systems," Cauchemez said in an e-mail.
http://www.reuters.com/article/lates.../idUSN09207520

[flatlander]

you can add Arizona to the list now. Here is the link.

http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1143968

[dreamingones]

Add RI to the list of states with school closings.

local RI news report

[Tea]

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2009...10/1006/news01

Indio High School closes after student diagnosed, Marines quarantined

29 Palms, California

Edit to add:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health

Bay Area school closed after kids get sick

[GhostRN]

I will update this list as soon as I receive editing direction - yesterday it would let me update it, today I don't see that option. tks for submitting info.

[GhostRN]

More than 100 U.S. schools closed because of swine flu

• Story Highlights
• At least 74 schools shut because of possible or confirmed cases
• 30 more schools across the country have closed as precaution
• Education secretary urges "common sense" measures

From Kate Bolduan
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- At least 74 elementary, junior high and high schools have closed across the country because of confirmed or probable cases of swine flu, the Department of Education said Wednesday.
Another 30 schools have closed as a precautionary measure because of the H1N1 virus, Department of Education spokesman Massie Ritsch said.
The closures -- of both public and private schools across eight states -- affect about 56,000 students out of the estimated 55 million students attending the nation's 100,000 kindergarten-through-12th grade schools, Ritsch said.
Some of the schools that were closed have reopened, he noted.
On Wednesday, President Obama called on schools with confirmed or possible swine flu cases to "strongly consider temporarily closing so that we can be as safe as possible."
And Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement Wednesday that everyone involved in schools needs to "pitch in and do our part to prevent the spread of this flu virus."
"Use the same common sense and courtesy that you would use during winter flu season: Wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough, and stay home if you are sick," Duncan said.
The secretary said the department is closely monitoring the flu outbreak and urged schools to follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Do what is appropriate for the health of your communities, your schools and your students," Duncan said.
Department of Education officials and experts from the CDC held a conference call Monday with more than 1,700 people from national education associations, state school offices, individual schools and school districts.
The Department of Education emphasized the need for "common sense" preventative measures among students and faculty in school facilities, an official said.
Education officials also stressed the need for people showing any flu-like symptoms to stay away from school and called on administrators to report any suspected or confirmed cases to local public health authorities as well as the Department of Education.
If a school has a confirmed case of swine flu, the CDC recommends closing the facility for about seven days.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/29/swi...ols/index.html

[Shiloh]

central new york state:
http://blog.syracuse.com/east/2009/0..._school_s.html

Conn. school closings in Post 3: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=101307

[GhostRN]

Idea of closing schools over flu raises questions
Shutting doors may create ripple effect: What about parents, day care?
Associated Press Writers
The Associated Press
updated 4:10 p.m. ET, Wed., April 29, 2009

WASHINGTON - Closing schools won't necessarily stop the spread of swine flu.
What about the younger sister in a private day care center? And how to keep teens who are sent home from getting together at the mall or at each other's houses?
So far, only about 100 of the nation's 132,000 schools have closed. But they include schools on both coasts and in the nation's heartland, and more are likely to shut their doors in coming days. Texas officials just suspended all high school sports — smack in the middle of baseball season.
In a worldwide epidemic — which the swine flu outbreak is not — government planning documents say schools could be closed for up to 12 weeks.
Local officials make the decisions on schools, after weighing conditions in their cities, towns and counties. But President Barack Obama says parents everywhere should start preparing for the possibility that their kids may be sent home.
That would raise a whole new set of questions.
"There is a large ripple effect," acknowledged Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's newly approved health secretary. "What happens to the parents? Where do those children go? Do you close the day care center if a younger sibling is there?"
So far, closings have affected fewer than 60,000 students out of a total of 56 million enrolled nationwide in K-12 education in public and private schools. Most of the closings are individual schools, not entire systems. Most are expected to be short-term, a week or so. Some of the children who got sick are already recovering.
If the outbreak turns into a killer flu, classes could still continue even if schools are shut.
If they've planned for it, teachers could give their lessons by Internet, television, radio, telephone, mail or through their community newspapers.
In Mexico, where the illnesses have been more severe, the government closed schools nationwide. In the U.S., authorities will deal with the problem from the ground up, not from the top down.
"It is the state and local role to plan what's going to happen, as far as day to day or hour to hour," said Brenda Greene, director of school health programs for the National School Boards Association.
If a flu case is confirmed at a school, local officials may just close down that school alone. Clusters of cases at different schools could prompt the closing of an entire system. Closings in many communities may lead to a statewide shutdown.
Closing schools is not to be taken lightly.
"It's not just about the schools," explained Kim Elliott, deputy director of Trust for America's Health, an independent public health organization. "If a community is thinking about closing schools, they're also probably thinking about closing day care centers. And children also depend on schools for a lot of services other than education, including lunch programs and after-school care."
The federal government has taken a leading role in helping states and local communities plan for a public health disaster. Washington's concern grew from the anthrax attacks of 2001 and the 2005 bird flu scare that sparked fears of global infection.
In Congress, the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Democrat George Miller of California, said Wednesday he will hold a hearing next week on how schools and businesses are prepared to handle the swine flu virus.
On a conference call Monday, officials from the Education Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention answered questions from more than 1,400 people from school districts, state education offices and education groups.
Education officials said many asked what circumstances should prompt schools to close. They were encouraged to follow the CDC's recommendation that schools close if they have a confirmed case or if they have a suspected case that is linked to a confirmed case.
In the end, making the decision is a balancing act, not an on-off switch, said Robert M. Pestronk, a former public health officer who heads the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
"Because there is one case in one school, or 10 cases, doesn't lead to a decision to close a whole district," said Pestronk. "It's a case of balancing the risk that is potentially present against the need for communities to operate normally on a day-to-day basis. You're trying to protect people's health and not completely shut down communities."
There may be alternatives to closing schools.
Researchers at Georgia Tech modeled the effects of two options: a voluntary quarantine of affected households in a severe flu, and school closures. They found that both would work about as well.
"It's information that boards of education should consider," said Julie Swann, a professor of industrial engineering who collaborated in the study. "In some cases, you might want to do both kinds of interventions."
Some families are already doing that.
In the New York City borough of Queens, St. Francis Preparatory School closed last weekend and will remain shuttered at least until Monday. The 2,700-student school is the largest Roman Catholic high school in the nation.
Raquel Mooradian and her husband, Greg, have been holed up in their Queens apartment since their 17-year-old daughter, Felicia, a senior at St. Francis, fell ill on Friday. They have two other children, ages 2 and 16.
Raquel said they are afraid to leave the apartment for fear of infecting others. She didn't attend her classes at a local college, and Greg called in sick at his job. However, their teenage son is attending classes at his public school near St. Francis.
When they took their daughter to the emergency room on Saturday night, she had a temperature of 102.7.
The mother said she covers her face so she won't catch the virus when she goes into her daughter's bedroom to bring her soup, water or Gatorade.
"She's able to talk but says, 'Let me sleep, let me sleep,'" said her mother.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30482713/

[GhostRN]

AL: Huntsville, Alabama - tks contributor wdcare
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/...ne_flu_cl.html
AZ TKs contributor Flatlander
http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1143968
CA One San Diego school will close its doors to students immediately as a precaution after one of its students had a confirmed case of swine flu, San Diego health officials said Monday.Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa is being closed as a precaution.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-Schools-.html
a school near Sacramento, will be closed until at least Thursday while health officials determine if a seventh-grader has the flu.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
http://www.mydesert.com/article/2009...10/1006/news01
Indio High School closes after student diagnosed, Marines quarantined
29 Palms, California - Tks contributor TEa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health
Bay Area school closed after kids get sick
CT No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, but two "probable" cases have been identified in Stratford and Southbury, and East Haddam schools will be closed Wednesday after two members of a family that recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico, became ill, officials said.
Conn. school closings in Post 3: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=101307 tks contributor Shiloh
IL-While in Chicago, a probable case of swine flu prompted the closure of a Northside Chicago elementary school for at least two days.
Kilmer Elementary School is located in a neighborhood with a large Filipino-American population. School officials noted an unusually high absentee rate at the school in the last few days. Because of this, officials closed the school even before one of its students was discovered to have a probable case of swine flu.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-mig...ense-neighborh
LA-BATON ROUGE, La. – Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine said the closing of the Lafayette school was a precautionary move. http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stor...u.255a226.html#
NY In New York, St. Francis Preparatory is closed for several days after reports of eight confirmed cases among students and possibly more. Testing continues on dozens of other students.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/St. Francis is the largest private Catholic high school in the nation, with 2,700 students http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories...n-US-no-deathscentral new york state:
http://blog.syracuse.com/east/2009/0..._school_s.html Tks contributor ShilohThree Catholic schools in Brooklyn -- Good Shepherd in Marine Park, St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Bishop Kearney HS in Bensonhurst -- closed for the rest of the week because of suspected cases.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009...ols_166945.htm Tks Contributor CommonGround

OH An elementary school in Ohio is closed for the week after a student was found with the virus after a family trip to Mexico. Authorities say he has a mild case and is recovering at home.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/
RI - TKs contributor Dreamingones local RI news report
SC An independent Newberry school is closed today after 13 students and three chaperones returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
A message on the Newberry Academy's Web site (http://www.newberryacademy.com/) says an announcement will be made by 3 p.m. on whether school will be closed tomorrow.http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1297415.html
TX (Multiple Districts mentioned)
SAN ANTONIO - The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a district-wide closure.
http://www.woai.com/content/health/s...SuvkrFQ9Q.cspx
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1348647.html - tks contributor Tess

Near San Antonio, 14 schools will be closed for at least the next week after two students at a high school caught the virus.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Saturday that Byron Steele High School in Cibolo will temporarily close as public health and school officials work to keep swine influenza from spreading.
The school closing is effective immediately, and will last for at least 10 days. The school's extracurricular activities also will be cancelled.
http://www.ksat.com/health/19290045/detail.html
Texas state health authorities on Saturday ordered a high school near San Antonio closed indefinitely after a third student showed symptoms of swine flu, which has killed dozens of people in Mexico.http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53P0B120090426?rpc=64
UT: Park City School District is closing all of its schools today. The superintendent of schools and school board says all eight schools in the district will be closed after three students showed possible signs of having swine flu. Confirmation of the swine flu has not been made by the CDC. The district is closing all schools and facilities as well as any planned activities at least through Monday.http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-st...,2311512.story tks contributor Commonground.
WA-Seattle's Madrona K-8.closed through next Wednesday to follow the recommendations of King County Public Health. The school will have a routine cleaning.The school will reopen on Thursday, May 7. Tks contributor Tea
Other: 4/27 Schools in New York, Texas, California and Ohio where students were found or were suspected to have swine flu were closing. http://www.wwj.com/Swine-Flu-Cases-R...States/4279489

***Note schools may re-open - the list above will not track that. This list will be updated as able and as others reply to this post. For general information purposes only. As always use your own local contacts for attendance purposes. Corrections/adjustments welcome.

[wdcare]

Huntsville, Alabama
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/...ne_flu_cl.html

[tess]

Article in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram

By STEVE CAMPBELL and EVA-MARIE AYALA

The Fort Worth school district shut down all 144 of its campuses until at least May 8 shortly before the first Tarrant County case of swine flu was confirmed at one school late Wednesday.

County health officials advised the 80,000-student district to close after four probable cases of swine flu were found in district students.

snip

Dr. Sandra Parker, medical director of Tarrant County Public Health, said letters were sent to people who may have had close contact with the sick student or the other three probable cases telling them that they may need to contact a doctor.

She said that Tarrant County now has 10 probable cases of swine flu and that her department is investigating five more from surrounding counties.

snip

The Cleburne school district shut down all 11 of its campuses after four probable cases were reported.

Texas education officials postponed all public high school athletic competition until May 11.

[Tea]

wow... California re opening of a school.

Another positive development took place at Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa. The private school reopened yesterday after a one-day closing caused by fears of a swine flu outbreak.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stori...emic-imminent/

[Commonground]

Utah
5:49 AM MDT, April 30, 2009

PARK CITY, Utah - Park City School District is closing all of its schools today. The superintendent of schools and school board says all eight schools in the district will be closed after three students showed possible signs of having swine flu. Confirmation of the swine flu has not been made by the CDC. The district is closing all schools and facilities as well as any planned activities at least through Monday.
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-st...,2311512.story

[Commonground]

NY
Last updated: 7:11 am
April 30, 2009
SWINE FLU SHUTS 3 MORE CITY SCHOOLS

Three Catholic schools in Brooklyn -- Good Shepherd in Marine Park, St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Bishop Kearney HS in Bensonhurst -- closed for the rest of the week because of suspected cases.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009...ols_166945.htm

[Tea]

Seatle WA

http://www.kirotv.com/news/19328773/detail.html#-

6 Probable Swine Flu Cases Identified; School Closes


They said one King County case is an 11-year-old boy who is a student at Seattle's Madrona K-8.

David Tucker from Seattle Public Schools said the school will be closed through next Wednesday to follow the recommendations of King County Public Health. The school will have a routine cleaning.

The school will reopen on Thursday, May 7.

[GhostRN]

***Note schools may re-open - the list below will not track that. This list will be updated as able and as others reply to this post. For general information purposes only. As always use your own local contacts for attendance purposes. Corrections/adjustments welcome. Beginning 4/30 I'll place the most recent entries immediately after the state. We'll see how long we can keep this up but at some point I project it will become an overwhelming task. First state to close all it's schools and I'll stop this thread. Made me start thinking about Vegas odds makers.....GhostRN

AL: On Thursday, 62 schools in Huntsville, Ala., and Madison, Ala., closed, affecting 31,000 students http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090430...ef375f8_1.html
Huntsville, Alabama - http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/...ne_flu_cl.htmltks contributor wdcare
AZ http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1143968TKs contributor Flatlander
CA One San Diego school will close its doors to students immediately as a precaution after one of its students had a confirmed case of swine flu, San Diego health officials said Monday.Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa is being closed as a precaution.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-Schools-.html
a school near Sacramento, will be closed until at least Thursday while health officials determine if a seventh-grader has the flu.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
http://www.mydesert.com/article/2009...10/1006/news01
Indio High School closes after student diagnosed, Marines quarantined
29 Palms, California - Tks contributor TEa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health
Bay Area school closed after kids get sick
CT No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, but two "probable" cases have been identified in Stratford and Southbury, and East Haddam schools will be closed Wednesday after two members of a family that recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico, became ill, officials said.
Conn. school closings in Post 3: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=101307 tks contributor Shiloh
IL-While in Chicago, a probable case of swine flu prompted the closure of a Northside Chicago elementary school for at least two days.
Kilmer Elementary School is located in a neighborhood with a large Filipino-American population. School officials noted an unusually high absentee rate at the school in the last few days. Because of this, officials closed the school even before one of its students was discovered to have a probable case of swine flu.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/balitang-america/04/30/09/swine-flu-prompts-school-closures-filipino-dense-neighborh
LA-BATON ROUGE, La. – Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine said the closing of the Lafayette school was a precautionary move. http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl042909tpflu.255a226.html#
NY In New York, St. Francis Preparatory is closed for several days after reports of eight confirmed cases among students and possibly more. Testing continues on dozens of other students.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/St. Francis is the largest private Catholic high school in the nation, with 2,700 students http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories...n-US-no-deathscentral new york state:
http://blog.syracuse.com/east/2009/0..._school_s.html Tks contributor ShilohThree Catholic schools in Brooklyn -- Good Shepherd in Marine Park, St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Bishop Kearney HS in Bensonhurst -- closed for the rest of the week because of suspected cases.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009...ols_166945.htm Tks Contributor CommonGround
OH An elementary school in Ohio is closed for the week after a student was found with the virus after a family trip to Mexico. Authorities say he has a mild case and is recovering at home.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/
RI - TKs contributor Dreamingones local RI news report
SC An independent Newberry school is closed today after 13 students and three chaperones returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
A message on the Newberry Academy's Web site (http://www.newberryacademy.com/) says an announcement will be made by 3 p.m. on whether school will be closed tomorrow.http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1297415.html
TX (Multiple Districts mentioned)
The number of school closures related to the swine flu outbreak is growing. Wednesday night, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas announced it was closing its 140 schools, with about 80,000 students, through at least May 8. (April 30) http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=12722
According to various reports on http://www.chron.com, there are now three public and one private schools in Houston closed due to confirmed or suspected swine flu. Most recent is Lyons Elementary where parents are being asked to pick their children up as soon as they can. Lyons Elementary is probably on the East or Southeast side of town. The other two public schools are in the Heights which is just to the Northeast of downtown. The private school is Episcopal High School located on the city's near west-side in the City of Bellaire.

SAN ANTONIO - The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a district-wide closure.
http://www.woai.com/content/health/s...SuvkrFQ9Q.cspx
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1348647.html - tks contributor Tess
Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/MNVT17BHN2.DTL
Near San Antonio, 14 schools will be closed for at least the next week after two students at a high school caught the virus.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Saturday that Byron Steele High School in Cibolo will temporarily close as public health and school officials work to keep swine influenza from spreading.
The school closing is effective immediately, and will last for at least 10 days. The school's extracurricular activities also will be cancelled.
http://www.ksat.com/health/19290045/detail.html
Texas state health authorities on Saturday ordered a high school near San Antonio closed indefinitely after a third student showed symptoms of swine flu, which has killed dozens of people in Mexico.http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53P0B120090426?rpc=64 - tks contributor Wotan.
UT: Park City School District is closing all of its schools today. The superintendent of schools and school board says all eight schools in the district will be closed after three students showed possible signs of having swine flu. Confirmation of the swine flu has not been made by the CDC. The district is closing all schools and facilities as well as any planned activities at least through Monday.http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-st...,2311512.story tks contributor Commonground.
WA-Seattle's Madrona K-8.closed through next Wednesday to follow the recommendations of King County Public Health. The school will have a routine cleaning.The school will reopen on Thursday, May 7. Tks contributor Tea
Other: 4/30 Some schools also closed in Illinois, New York City, South Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio and Texas. Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNVT17BHN2.DTL 4/27 Schools in New York, Texas, California and Ohio where students were found or were suspected to have swine flu were closing. http://www.wwj.com/Swine-Flu-Cases-R...States/4279489

[wotan]

According to various reports on http://www.chron.com, there are now three public and one private schools in Houston closed due to confirmed or suspected swine flu. Most recent is Lyons Elementary where parents are being asked to pick their children up as soon as they can. Lyons Elementary is probably on the East or Southeast side of town. The other two public schools are in the Heights which is just to the Northeast of downtown. The private school is Episcopal High School located on the city's near west-side in the City of Bellaire.

[GhostRN]

***Note schools may re-open - the list below will not track that. This list will be updated as able and as others reply to this post. For general information purposes only. As always use your own local contacts for attendance purposes. Corrections/adjustments welcome. Beginning 4/30 I'll place the most recent entries immediately after the state. We'll see how long we can keep this up but at some point I project it will become an overwhelming task. First state to close all it's schools and I'll stop this thread. Made me start thinking about Vegas odds makers.....GhostRN

AL: On Thursday, 62 schools in Huntsville, Ala., and Madison, Ala., closed, affecting 31,000 students http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090430...ef375f8_1.html
Huntsville, Alabama - http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/...ne_flu_cl.htmltks contributor wdcare
AZ Thursday, Maricopa County health director Bob England said Tarwater Elementary and Hartford Sylvia Encinas Elementary School, both in the Chandler Unified School District, will be closed for seven days.http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1146264 Tks contributor Flatlander
http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1143968TKs contributor Flatlander

CA One San Diego school will close its doors to students immediately as a precaution after one of its students had a confirmed case of swine flu, San Diego health officials said Monday.Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa is being closed as a precaution.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-Schools-.html
a school near Sacramento, will be closed until at least Thursday while health officials determine if a seventh-grader has the flu.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
http://www.mydesert.com/article/2009...10/1006/news01
Indio High School closes after student diagnosed, Marines quarantined
29 Palms, California - Tks contributor TEa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health
Bay Area school closed after kids get sick
CT No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, but two "probable" cases have been identified in Stratford and Southbury, and East Haddam schools will be closed Wednesday after two members of a family that recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico, became ill, officials said.
Conn. school closings in Post 3: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=101307 tks contributor Shiloh
IL-in Kane County:Batavia High School and Rotolo Middle School in Batavia, Marmion Academy and Bednarcik Junior High in Aurora, and Fox Chase Elementary and Thompson Junior High in Oswego will be closed until Monday, May 4.
Also, the Batavia Park District has canceled all programs and gatherings through Sunday for children in grades six through eight.
In Will County:Two schools in southwest suburban Joliet -- Farragut Elementary and Sator Sanchez Elementary -- have announced they will be closed until Tuesday due to three probable cases of swine flu in the district, according to the district’s Web site.
In Chicago (Cook County):
Joyce Kilmer School in Rogers Park will remain closed until further notice. The school was closed Wednesday when a 12-year-old student was determined to be a probable case of swine flu, and officials noticed lower than normal attendance.
Chicago, a probable case of swine flu prompted the closure of a Northside Chicago elementary school for at least two days. tks Contributor Dreamingones
Kilmer Elementary School is located in a neighborhood with a large Filipino-American population. School officials noted an unusually high absentee rate at the school in the last few days. Because of this, officials closed the school even before one of its students was discovered to have a probable case of swine flu.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/balitang-america/04/30/09/swine-flu-prompts-school-closures-filipino-dense-neighborh
LA-BATON ROUGE, La. – Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine said the closing of the Lafayette school was a precautionary move. http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl042909tpflu.255a226.html#
NY In New York, St. Francis Preparatory is closed for several days after reports of eight confirmed cases among students and possibly more. Testing continues on dozens of other students.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/St. Francis is the largest private Catholic high school in the nation, with 2,700 students http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories...n-US-no-deathscentral new york state:
http://blog.syracuse.com/east/2009/0..._school_s.html Tks contributor ShilohThree Catholic schools in Brooklyn -- Good Shepherd in Marine Park, St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Bishop Kearney HS in Bensonhurst -- closed for the rest of the week because of suspected cases.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009...ols_166945.htm Tks Contributor CommonGround
OH An elementary school in Ohio is closed for the week after a student was found with the virus after a family trip to Mexico. Authorities say he has a mild case and is recovering at home.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/
RI - TKs contributor Dreamingones local RI news report
SC An independent Newberry school is closed today after 13 students and three chaperones returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
A message on the Newberry Academy's Web site (http://www.newberryacademy.com/) says an announcement will be made by 3 p.m. on whether school will be closed tomorrow.http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1297415.html
TX (Multiple Districts mentioned)
The number of school closures related to the swine flu outbreak is growing. Wednesday night, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas announced it was closing its 140 schools, with about 80,000 students, through at least May 8. (April 30) http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=12722
According to various reports on http://www.chron.com, there are now three public and one private schools in Houston closed due to confirmed or suspected swine flu. Most recent is Lyons Elementary where parents are being asked to pick their children up as soon as they can. Lyons Elementary is probably on the East or Southeast side of town. The other two public schools are in the Heights which is just to the Northeast of downtown. The private school is Episcopal High School located on the city's near west-side in the City of Bellaire.

SAN ANTONIO - The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a district-wide closure.
http://www.woai.com/content/health/s...SuvkrFQ9Q.cspx
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1348647.html - tks contributor Tess
Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/MNVT17BHN2.DTL
Near San Antonio, 14 schools will be closed for at least the next week after two students at a high school caught the virus.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Saturday that Byron Steele High School in Cibolo will temporarily close as public health and school officials work to keep swine influenza from spreading.
The school closing is effective immediately, and will last for at least 10 days. The school's extracurricular activities also will be cancelled.
http://www.ksat.com/health/19290045/detail.html
Texas state health authorities on Saturday ordered a high school near San Antonio closed indefinitely after a third student showed symptoms of swine flu, which has killed dozens of people in Mexico.http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53P0B120090426?rpc=64 - tks contributor Wotan.
UT: Judge Memorial, Lady of Lourdes schools closed due to flu threathttp://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6328615 tks Contributor UtahApoc
Park City School District is closing all of its schools today. The superintendent of schools and school board says all eight schools in the district will be closed after three students showed possible signs of having swine flu. Confirmation of the swine flu has not been made by the CDC. The district is closing all schools and facilities as well as any planned activities at least through Monday.http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-st...,2311512.story tks contributor Commonground.

WA-Seattle's Madrona K-8.closed through next Wednesday to follow the recommendations of King County Public Health. The school will have a routine cleaning.The school will reopen on Thursday, May 7. Tks contributor Tea
Other: 4/30 Some schools also closed in Illinois, New York City, South Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio and Texas. Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNVT17BHN2.DTL 4/27 Schools in New York, Texas, California and Ohio where students were found or were suspected to have swine flu were closing. http://www.wwj.com/Swine-Flu-Cases-R...States/4279489

[sharon sanders]

Thanks GhostRN!

[erinisnice]

There are two more schools closed in Illinois, but I can't find the towns, only the counties.

[UtahApoc]

More in Utah:

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6328615

Judge Memorial, Lady of Lourdes schools closed due to flu threat

[dreamingones]

School closings in IL are:

In Kane County:
Batavia High School and Rotolo Middle School in Batavia, Marmion Academy and Bednarcik Junior High in Aurora, and Fox Chase Elementary and Thompson Junior High in Oswego will be closed until Monday, May 4.

Also, the Batavia Park District has canceled all programs and gatherings through Sunday for children in grades six through eight.

In Will County:
Two schools in southwest suburban Joliet -- Farragut Elementary and Sator Sanchez Elementary -- have announced they will be closed until Tuesday due to three probable cases of swine flu in the district, according to the district’s Web site.

Those cases were detected after an 11-year-old girl, an 8-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl, all from Joliet, went to local hospitals. All three have been released and are recovering, according to a release from the Will County Health Dept.

In Chicago (Cook County):
Joyce Kilmer School in Rogers Park will remain closed until further notice. The school was closed Wednesday when a 12-year-old student was determined to be a probable case of swine flu, and officials noticed lower than normal attendance.


source: http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/h...043009.article

[flatlander]

Arizona has two more schools closed as of today as well.

Thanks for pulling this all together you have put together a great list .

http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1146264

Exerpt:

Thursday, Maricopa County health director Bob England said Tarwater Elementary and Hartford Sylvia Encinas Elementary School, both in the Chandler Unified School District, will be closed for seven days.

[GhostRN]

***This list may not be copied to another public site. This list will be updated as able and as others reply to this post. For general information purposes only. As always use your own local contacts for attendance purposes.Note schools may re-open - the list below will not track that. Corrections/adjustments welcome. Beginning 4/30 I'll place the most recent entries immediately after the state. We'll see how long we can keep this up but at some point I project it will become an overwhelming task. First state to close all it's schools and I'll stop this thread. Made me start thinking about Vegas odds makers.....GhostRN

AL: On Thursday, 62 schools in Huntsville, Ala., and Madison, Ala., closed, affecting 31,000 students http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090430...ef375f8_1.html
Huntsville, Alabama - http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/...ne_flu_cl.htmltks contributor wdcare
AZ Thursday, Maricopa County health director Bob England said Tarwater Elementary and Hartford Sylvia Encinas Elementary School, both in the Chandler Unified School District, will be closed for seven days.http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1146264 Tks contributor Flatlander
http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1143968TKs contributor Flatlander
CA One San Diego school will close its doors to students immediately as a precaution after one of its students had a confirmed case of swine flu, San Diego health officials said Monday.Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa is being closed as a precaution.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-Schools-.html
a school near Sacramento, will be closed until at least Thursday while health officials determine if a seventh-grader has the flu.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
http://www.mydesert.com/article/2009...10/1006/news01
Indio High School closes after student diagnosed, Marines quarantined
29 Palms, California - Tks contributor TEa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health
Bay Area school closed after kids get sick
CT No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, but two "probable" cases have been identified in Stratford and Southbury, and East Haddam schools will be closed Wednesday after two members of a family that recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico, became ill, officials said.
Conn. school closings in Post 3: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=101307 tks contributor Shiloh
IL-in Kane County:Batavia High School and Rotolo Middle School in Batavia, Marmion Academy and Bednarcik Junior High in Aurora, and Fox Chase Elementary and Thompson Junior High in Oswego will be closed until Monday, May 4.
Also, the Batavia Park District has canceled all programs and gatherings through Sunday for children in grades six through eight.
In Will County:Two schools in southwest suburban Joliet -- Farragut Elementary and Sator Sanchez Elementary -- have announced they will be closed until Tuesday due to three probable cases of swine flu in the district, according to the district’s Web site.
In Chicago (Cook County):
Joyce Kilmer School in Rogers Park will remain closed until further notice. The school was closed Wednesday when a 12-year-old student was determined to be a probable case of swine flu, and officials noticed lower than normal attendance.
Chicago, a probable case of swine flu prompted the closure of a Northside Chicago elementary school for at least two days. tks Contributor Dreamingones
Kilmer Elementary School is located in a neighborhood with a large Filipino-American population. School officials noted an unusually high absentee rate at the school in the last few days. Because of this, officials closed the school even before one of its students was discovered to have a probable case of swine flu.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/balitang-america/04/30/09/swine-flu-prompts-school-closures-filipino-dense-neighborh
LA-BATON ROUGE, La. – Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine said the closing of the Lafayette school was a precautionary move. http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl042909tpflu.255a226.html#
MN First confirmed H1N1 case in Minnesota and first school closings (announced that they would remain closed for 7 days, starting on the day the infection was confirmed.)Rocori Middle School in Cold Spring.St. Boniface School will also remain closed CDC confirms Minnesota's 1st swine flu case By ELIZABETH DUNBAR Associated Press Writer pdated: 04/30/2009 01:09:58 PM CDT tks contributor Nursenalts
NY In New York, St. Francis Preparatory is closed for several days after reports of eight confirmed cases among students and possibly more. Testing continues on dozens of other students.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/St. Francis is the largest private Catholic high school in the nation, with 2,700 students http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories...n-US-no-deathscentral new york state:
http://blog.syracuse.com/east/2009/0..._school_s.html Tks contributor ShilohThree Catholic schools in Brooklyn -- Good Shepherd in Marine Park, St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Bishop Kearney HS in Bensonhurst -- closed for the rest of the week because of suspected cases.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009...ols_166945.htm Tks Contributor CommonGround
OH An elementary school in Ohio is closed for the week after a student was found with the virus after a family trip to Mexico. Authorities say he has a mild case and is recovering at home.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/
RI - TKs contributor Dreamingones local RI news report
SC An independent Newberry school is closed today after 13 students and three chaperones returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
A message on the Newberry Academy's Web site (http://www.newberryacademy.com/) says an announcement will be made by 3 p.m. on whether school will be closed tomorrow.http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1297415.html
TX (Multiple Districts mentioned)
The number of school closures related to the swine flu outbreak is growing. Wednesday night, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas announced it was closing its 140 schools, with about 80,000 students, through at least May 8. (April 30) http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=12722
According to various reports on http://www.chron.com, there are now three public and one private schools in Houston closed due to confirmed or suspected swine flu. Most recent is Lyons Elementary where parents are being asked to pick their children up as soon as they can. Lyons Elementary is probably on the East or Southeast side of town. The other two public schools are in the Heights which is just to the Northeast of downtown. The private school is Episcopal High School located on the city's near west-side in the City of Bellaire.
SAN ANTONIO - The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a district-wide closure.
http://www.woai.com/content/health/s...SuvkrFQ9Q.cspx
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1348647.html - tks contributor Tess
Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/MNVT17BHN2.DTL
Near San Antonio, 14 schools will be closed for at least the next week after two students at a high school caught the virus.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Saturday that Byron Steele High School in Cibolo will temporarily close as public health and school officials work to keep swine influenza from spreading.
The school closing is effective immediately, and will last for at least 10 days. The school's extracurricular activities also will be cancelled.
http://www.ksat.com/health/19290045/detail.html
Texas state health authorities on Saturday ordered a high school near San Antonio closed indefinitely after a third student showed symptoms of swine flu, which has killed dozens of people in Mexico.http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53P0B120090426?rpc=64 - tks contributor Wotan.
UT: Judge Memorial, Lady of Lourdes schools closed due to flu threathttp://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6328615 tks Contributor UtahApoc
Park City School District is closing all of its schools today. The superintendent of schools and school board says all eight schools in the district will be closed after three students showed possible signs of having swine flu. Confirmation of the swine flu has not been made by the CDC. The district is closing all schools and facilities as well as any planned activities at least through Monday.http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-st...,2311512.story tks contributor Commonground.
WA-Seattle's Madrona K-8.closed through next Wednesday to follow the recommendations of King County Public Health. The school will have a routine cleaning.The school will reopen on Thursday, May 7. Tks contributor Tea
Other: 4/30 Some schools also closed in Illinois, New York City, South Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio and Texas. Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNVT17BHN2.DTL 4/27 Schools in New York, Texas, California and Ohio where students were found or were suspected to have swine flu were closing. http://www.wwj.com/Swine-Flu-Cases-R...States/4279489

[NurseNalts]

First confirmed H1N1 case in Minnesota and first school closings (announced that they would remain closed for 7 days, starting on the day the infection was confirmed.)

CDC confirms Minnesota's 1st swine flu case
By ELIZABETH DUNBAR Associated Press Writer
Updated: 04/30/2009 01:09:58 PM CDT

MINNEAPOLIS—The Minnesota Department of Health confirmed the state's first case of swine flu on Thursday, leading school officials to keep a central Minnesota middle school closed through Tuesday.
The Minnesota Department of Health said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the case in a person with ties to Rocori Middle School in Cold Spring.

The middle school and a private elementary school next to it closed for a second day on Thursday.

Rocori Superintendent Scott Staska said health officials told him the case is confined to the middle school, and there were no immediate plans to close other schools in the district. For now, St. Boniface School will also remain closed.

[wotan]

This may be drifting off-topic and appropriate to a different forum, but my wife and I were talking about the school closings, and we had to wonder what good will it really do. These schools will for the most part reopen the week after next. In the meantime the kids will get together at each other's houses, or at the malls, or where-ever else. And in the end they will just bring the flu back to their schools.

Anyone care to comment?

[KC]

In the Inland Empire area of Southern California (Riverside and San Bernardino County), several individual school closings were announced today due to one or more students testing positive for non-typeable Influenza A (suspected A/H1N1).

I'll try to get a complete and updated list tomorrow.

[GhostRN]

Swine flu shuts 300 schools across the U.S

About 172,000 students in 11 states are affected by closures, officials say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30471035/ We have 14 on our list !! Way to go!!

[NurseNalts]

Regarding duration of school closure: This is from Governor Pawlenty's News conference from Ricorri, MN today. The Minnesota Dept of Health explained that policy states that since H1N1 is considered contagious in affected person for 1 day before symptoms occur until 7 day after onset of symptoms, that they would close the school for 7 day after case of H1N1 is officially lab-confirmed.

(They did not explain what would be done if more cases arose, but said that this is a fluid situation that is under close monitoring. If they stuck to their policy, they would need to extend closures.)

Included is a link from the MN Dept of Ed site with copies of their Pandemic Plans. Maybe this will help explain their rationale.

Personally, my kids are pulled from public school "until further notice." They will have a far better chance of avoiding "large groups in close proximity" at home in a controlled environment then in a large elementary school with shared lunch rooms, bathrooms, doorknobs and sneezes!

Minnesota Dept. of Education Pandemic Influenza Policies:
http://education.state.mn.us/mde/Abo...ion/index.html

[Cairelle RN]

Thanks for your work in pulling this info together.