John Jay Campus, 3 Other Park Slope Schools Hit With Coronavirus

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Four more schools in Park Slope have reported coronavirus cases, causing classrooms at three buildings to temporarily shut down, according to education officials.

The John Jay Educational Campus, P.S. 124 Silas B. Dutcher school, P.S. 10 in South Slope and P.S. 39 were among the schools in Brooklyn that reported at least one new coronavirus case in the last week, according to a map of active cases from the Department of Education.

The cases at P.S. 124, P.S. 10 and the John Jay Educational Campus, which was at the school of law, prompted a classroom to be shut down since the person had been in the building.

At P.S. 39, no action was taken because the person had not exposed anyone else to the virus, according to the map.

Per DOE policy, one or two cases in the same classroom prompts a closure of that room and requires all close contacts of the person to quarantine for 14 days. They did not specify whether there was one or two cases at the Park Slope school with the closed classrooms.

The new cases are among at least a dozen this week in Brooklyn, according to the map.

So far, four schools in Brooklyn not including those closed Tuesday have temporarily been shut down because of coronavirus cases since staff started reporting back to their buildings on Sept. 8.

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

This week, the state sent 200,000 rapid coronavirus test kits to schools within the "yellow zone" of recent lockdown measures. The Brooklyn yellow zone includes a portion of South Slope.

The tests are meant to track the spread of the coronavirus from clusters of cases that have appeared in a "red zone" in south Brooklyn.