NMPED: 16 New Mexico Schools On COVID-19 Watchlist

NMPED News:

SANTA FE — Sixteen New Mexico school buildings appeared on the COVID-19 Watchlist in the week ending Friday, March 12, signifying they had at least two Rapid Responses within a 14-day period:

ALAMOGORDO

  • Mountain View Middle

ALBUQUERQUE:

  • Albuquerque Academy
  • Public Academy for Performing Arts
  • Sandia Preparatory
  • St. Charles Borromeo School
  • Ventana Ranch Elementary

ARTESIA

  • Artesia Park Junior High 
  • Yucca Elementary

CARLSBAD

  • Carlsbad High
  • Carlsbad Intermediate 

CLOUDCROFT

  • Cloudcroft Elementary

FARMINGTON

  • Farmington High

MORIARTY

  • Moriarty Edgewood School Transportation

SANTA FE

  • St. Michaels High

SILVER CITY

  • La Plata Middle

TAOS

  • Taos High

During that same period, no schools were placed on the Closure List. 

The Watchlist, maintained by the New Mexico Environment Department, includes schools and businesses with two or more Rapid Responses within 14 days. Those with four or more Rapid Responses in 14 days are placed on the Closure List and required to close and, where appropriate, return instruction to remote-only learning.  

A Rapid Response is a series of interventions designed to prevent COVID-19 spread, beginning when the New Mexico Department of Health notifies a school that an employee or student has a confirmed positive case and was on campus/in the facility during the infectious period. Read the complete COVID-19 Rapid Response Watchlist here.

If a school has four rapid responses in a 14-day period, it must close and remain in remote-only learning mode for 14 days. 

Only the individual school that reached the four-in-14 threshold would be required to return to remote learning. That means a school district could have one school closed for in-person learning, another on the Watchlist, and others with no impact.

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