3 MORE QUEENS SCHOOLS TO CLOSE

By ALEX GINSBERG and SALLY GOLDENBERG
Posted: 3:22 pm
May 17, 2009

City officials ordered three more schools closed today, bringing to nine the total shuttered this coming week to try to halt the spread of swine flu.

The three schools, all in Queens, are IS 158Q in Bayside, IS 25Q in Flushing and Our Lady of Lourdes, a private parochial school.

City Health Department officials said the decision to close the schools was made after high numbers of students at each building reported flu-like symptoms. But no results are available yet confirming that any of them is suffering from the H1N1 virus, health officials said.

At IS 158Q, 41 students out of a total population of 1,127 students reported the symptoms, the Health Dept. said. At IS 25Q, 27 felt sick out of a total of 825 students, and at Our Lady of Lourdes, 37 students were ill out of a total population of 424.

The schools will remain shuttered for a minimum of five days.

Six schools were already under closure before today: JHS 74Q (Bayside), PS 107Q (Flushing), IS 318K (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), IS 238Q (Jamaica), PS 16Q (Corona) and IS 5Q (Elmhurst).

This list is posted and updated daily at Flutrackers Here by member GhostRN

 ***Note schools may re-open - the list below will not track that. This list will be updated as able and as others reply to this post. For general information purposes only. As always use your own local contacts for attendance purposes. Corrections/adjustments welcome. Beginning 4/30 I'll place the most recent entries immediately after the state. We'll see how long we can keep this up but at some point I project it will become an overwhelming task. First state to close all it's schools and I'll stop this thread. Made me start thinking about Vegas odds makers.....GhostRN

AL: On Thursday, 62 schools in Huntsville, Ala., and Madison, Ala., closed, affecting 31,000 students http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090430...ef375f8_1.html
Huntsville, Alabama - http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/...ne_flu_cl.htmltks contributor wdcare
AZ Thursday, Maricopa County health director Bob England said Tarwater Elementary and Hartford Sylvia Encinas Elementary School, both in the Chandler Unified School District, will be closed for seven days.http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1146264 Tks contributor Flatlander
http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1143968TKs contributor Flatlander

CA One San Diego school will close its doors to students immediately as a precaution after one of its students had a confirmed case of swine flu, San Diego health officials said Monday.Christ the Cornerstone Academy in Mira Mesa is being closed as a precaution.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-Schools-.html
a school near Sacramento, will be closed until at least Thursday while health officials determine if a seventh-grader has the flu.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
http://www.mydesert.com/article/2009...10/1006/news01
Indio High School closes after student diagnosed, Marines quarantined
29 Palms, California - Tks contributor TEa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health
Bay Area school closed after kids get sick
CT No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, but two "probable" cases have been identified in Stratford and Southbury, and East Haddam schools will be closed Wednesday after two members of a family that recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico, became ill, officials said.
Conn. school closings in Post 3: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=101307 tks contributor Shiloh
IL-in Kane County:Batavia High School and Rotolo Middle School in Batavia, Marmion Academy and Bednarcik Junior High in Aurora, and Fox Chase Elementary and Thompson Junior High in Oswego will be closed until Monday, May 4.
Also, the Batavia Park District has canceled all programs and gatherings through Sunday for children in grades six through eight.
In Will County:Two schools in southwest suburban Joliet -- Farragut Elementary and Sator Sanchez Elementary -- have announced they will be closed until Tuesday due to three probable cases of swine flu in the district, according to the district’s Web site.
In Chicago (Cook County):
Joyce Kilmer School in Rogers Park will remain closed until further notice. The school was closed Wednesday when a 12-year-old student was determined to be a probable case of swine flu, and officials noticed lower than normal attendance.
Chicago, a probable case of swine flu prompted the closure of a Northside Chicago elementary school for at least two days. tks Contributor Dreamingones
Kilmer Elementary School is located in a neighborhood with a large Filipino-American population. School officials noted an unusually high absentee rate at the school in the last few days. Because of this, officials closed the school even before one of its students was discovered to have a probable case of swine flu.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/balitang-america/04/30/09/swine-flu-prompts-school-closures-filipino-dense-neighborh
LA-BATON ROUGE, La. – Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine said the closing of the Lafayette school was a precautionary move. http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl042909tpflu.255a226.html#
NY In New York, St. Francis Preparatory is closed for several days after reports of eight confirmed cases among students and possibly more. Testing continues on dozens of other students.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/St. Francis is the largest private Catholic high school in the nation, with 2,700 students http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories...n-US-no-deathscentral new york state:
http://blog.syracuse.com/east/2009/0..._school_s.html Tks contributor ShilohThree Catholic schools in Brooklyn -- Good Shepherd in Marine Park, St. Brigid's in Bushwick and Bishop Kearney HS in Bensonhurst -- closed for the rest of the week because of suspected cases.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009...ols_166945.htm Tks Contributor CommonGround
OH An elementary school in Ohio is closed for the week after a student was found with the virus after a family trip to Mexico. Authorities say he has a mild case and is recovering at home.http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/16711/42/
RI - TKs contributor Dreamingones local RI news report
SC An independent Newberry school is closed today after 13 students and three chaperones returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
A message on the Newberry Academy's Web site (http://www.newberryacademy.com/) says an announcement will be made by 3 p.m. on whether school will be closed tomorrow.http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1297415.html
TX (Multiple Districts mentioned)
The number of school closures related to the swine flu outbreak is growing. Wednesday night, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas announced it was closing its 140 schools, with about 80,000 students, through at least May 8. (April 30) http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=12722
According to various reports on http://www.chron.com, there are now three public and one private schools in Houston closed due to confirmed or suspected swine flu. Most recent is Lyons Elementary where parents are being asked to pick their children up as soon as they can. Lyons Elementary is probably on the East or Southeast side of town. The other two public schools are in the Heights which is just to the Northeast of downtown. The private school is Episcopal High School located on the city's near west-side in the City of Bellaire.

SAN ANTONIO - The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a district-wide closure.
http://www.woai.com/content/health/s...SuvkrFQ9Q.cspx
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1348647.html - tks contributor Tess
Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/MNVT17BHN2.DTL
Near San Antonio, 14 schools will be closed for at least the next week after two students at a high school caught the virus.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10253288
SAN ANTONIO -- The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Saturday that Byron Steele High School in Cibolo will temporarily close as public health and school officials work to keep swine influenza from spreading.
The school closing is effective immediately, and will last for at least 10 days. The school's extracurricular activities also will be cancelled.
http://www.ksat.com/health/19290045/detail.html
Texas state health authorities on Saturday ordered a high school near San Antonio closed indefinitely after a third student showed symptoms of swine flu, which has killed dozens of people in Mexico.http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53P0B120090426?rpc=64 - tks contributor Wotan.
UT: Judge Memorial, Lady of Lourdes schools closed due to flu threathttp://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6328615 tks Contributor UtahApoc
Park City School District is closing all of its schools today. The superintendent of schools and school board says all eight schools in the district will be closed after three students showed possible signs of having swine flu. Confirmation of the swine flu has not been made by the CDC. The district is closing all schools and facilities as well as any planned activities at least through Monday.http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-st...,2311512.story tks contributor Commonground.

WA-Seattle's Madrona K-8.closed through next Wednesday to follow the recommendations of King County Public Health. The school will have a routine cleaning.The school will reopen on Thursday, May 7. Tks contributor Tea
Other: 4/30 Some schools also closed in Illinois, New York City, South Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio and Texas. Closures in the Lone Star state have affected 130,000 children. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNVT17BHN2.DTL 4/27 Schools in New York, Texas, California and Ohio where students were found or were suspected to have swine flu were closing. http://www.wwj.com/Swine-Flu-Cases-R...States/4279489