Queen City schools add 10 COVID-19 cases

Pleasant Grove records seven new student cases

Queen City Independent School District reported a total of 10 new COVID-19 cases for the most recent period of Oct. 5-11 in the latest school district COVID data released by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

QCISD reported six new student cases and four new staff member cases, with one having a source of infection listed as off campus and the other nine being unknown.

Prior to this week, Queen City’s percentage of total students on campus having tested positive since July 27 was under 1%, but after these cases were added, that percentage rose to 1.72% — second-highest among Cass County school districts. This includes the number of total reported cases divided by the on-campus student enrollment reported as of Sept. 28.

The highest percentage in Cass

County remains at McLeod ISD, at 2.89%. It has 11 total student cases and one new student case, in addition to eight total staff cases and one new staff case. The district’s Sept. 28 student enrollment was 381.

Linden-Kildare Consolidated ISD still holds the lowest percentage with only 0.46% of its total enrollment having tested positive since July 27. However, L-K CISD did report four new staff member cases after previously having zero total.

Other Cass districts with new cases included Atlanta ISD, with three new staff members.

Reporting the most cases in Bowie County was Pleasant Grove ISD, with seven new student cases and one new staff member. The source of infection was off campus for five of the cases and unknown for three.

This brings PGISD’s percentage of total students testing positive since July 27 to more than 1% for the first time. It also has five total staff cases.

Despite having no new cases reported, DeKalb ISD still has the highest percentage of total positive student cases in Bowie County at 1.84%.

Malta ISD has the lowest percentage at 0.46% with no new cases reported.

Liberty-Eylau ISD had no data included on its reports for this week.

Other Bowie County districts with newly reported cases included Hooks ISD, three students and three staff members; Red Lick ISD, two students and one staff member; Simms ISD, two students and one staff member; and Texarkana

ISD, two students and three staff members.

Hughes Springs had the only known case of an on-campus infection. All other new cases were either reported as off campus or unknown.