Loudoun Schools Close Vaccination Center After Successful Run

LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA — Loudoun County Public Schools closed its vaccination center at Brambleton Middle School last Friday after administering more than 21,000 shots to county school system staff.

Teachers and county staff members who have not received the vaccine must now register and make an appointment to get their vaccine at the county-run vaccination center at Dulles Town Center Mall in Sterling.

The school system’s vaccination center, or point of distribution, at Brambleton Middle School opened on Jan. 15. It administered both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines during a seven-week period through a partnership with the Loudoun County Health Department and the County Office of Emergency Management.

“We distributed more than 21,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccination and were able to fully vaccinate more than 10,000 LCPS staff in 27 days over seven weeks," LCPS Director of Management and Coordination Brian Stocks, who oversaw the daily operation of the Brambleton POD, said Tuesday in a statement.

The Brambleton Middle School site administered 11,067 first vaccination and 10,276 second vaccinations. The site averaged 790 vaccinations during the second-week period it was open.

The highest daily total number of vaccinations given — 1,273 — occurred on Feb. 17 in anticipation of inclement weather the following day, the school system said.

An average of 55 employees of the Department of Pupil Workers worked 9.5 hours per day during the time the Brambleton Middle School POD was open, while an average of 15 workers from the Department of Support Services worked 9.5 hours per day. Three to five employees from the school system's Department of Digital Innovation also worked 9.5 hours per day at the Brambleton Middle School POD.

"I will never forget this for as long as I live," Jeannie Kloman, supervisor of Student Health Services for the county school system, said in an interview for a video produced by LCPS. "This has been the most memorable, professionally satisfying and personally satisfying project I’ve ever worked on."

“I really enjoyed working daily with Jeannie Kloman,” LCPS Director of Digital Experience Justin Donovan said in a statement. “I remember our morning pep talks where she was purely focused on her staff and making sure that they felt appreciated. Her level of caring was absolutely instrumental in creating the positive vibes and loving atmosphere so many staff wrote about when they left the Brambleton POD.”

Loudoun County public schools relaunched hybrid in-person learning on Feb. 16, bringing back elementary school students, and expanded the program to middle and high school students on March 3.

On Tuesday, Scott Ziegler, interim superintendent for LCPS, said the school system will offer all students five days a week of in-person learning this fall. Parents will be given the option of keeping their children remote if they prefer.