Coronavirus Closes Another District 15 School Building: DOE

COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN — Another District 15 campus was temporarily shut down on Monday after multiple cases of coronavirus were reported at its Baltic Street schools, according to the Department of Education.

The 284 Baltic St. building, which three schools, was one of nine across the five boroughs that was closed for a 24-hour period on Monday due to active coronavirus cases, according to the DOE map.

The closure comes after at least three cases connected to the campus were reported in the last week.

One of the reports closed a classroom at the Boerum Hill School for International Studies last Wednesday. The other two closed two classrooms at the Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School on Saturday.

Per DOE policy, a school building is closed when there are at least two cases from different classrooms, from an activity or exposure outside of school or when the link between them cannot be determined, according to the DOE.

In each case, the building is temporarily closed while the DOE starts an investigation into the cases. In the scenario when a link between the cases cannot be determined, the school is closed for 14 days, according to the guidelines.

This is at least the second 24-hour closure at a building in the last week in Brooklyn's District 15, which extends from Carroll Gardens to Sunset Park. On Friday, coronavirus cases closed the John Jay Educational Campus in Park Slope.

Twenty-eight schools across the five boroughs were completely closed on Monday, nine for 24 hours and 19 for a 14-day period.

There have been at least 600 coronavirus cases in New York City's public schools since the return of students to in-person classes.

Check the full map of active cases here.