SC K-12 schools COVID-19 cases rise by 118, DHEC data show
South Carolina’s K-12 schools have seen a total of 532 coronavirus cases since school started, according to S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control data.
The 532 cases include 352 students and 180 employees, according to the DHEC database updated Friday.
That’s 118 new infections since numbers were last reported Tuesday, when there were 414 cases.
The data apply to all S.C. public, private and charter schools, the majority of which either have no cases or fewer than five cases, according to DHEC data.
The case numbers show how many students and employees who attend or work at a school have tested positive for coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean the infected person contracted COVID-19 from being at the school.
Schools that are still virtual-only may have cases listed in the DHEC database because the infected students or employees may have been participating in a school-sponsored event, such as sports, when they were potentially contagious.
Here are the number of cases by school district in Richland and Lexington counties:
Lexington 1
- Carolina Springs Middle: Less than 5 student cases
- Centerville Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Gilbert Elementary: Less than 5 student cases
- Gilbert High: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Lexington Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Meadow Glen Elementary: Less than 5 student cases
- Meadow Glen Middle: Less than 5 student cases
- Pelion High: Less than 5 student cases
- River Bluff High: Less than 5 student cases and less than 5 faculty cases
- Rocky Creek Elementary: Less than 5 student cases
Lexington 2
- Brookland-Cayce Senior High: Less than 5 student cases
- Northside Middle: Less than 5 student cases
Lexington 3
- Batesburg-Leesville Middle: Less than 5 student cases and less than 5 faculty cases
Lexington 4
- Sandhills Elementary: Less than 5 student cases
Lexington-Richland 5
- Chapin High: Less than 5 student cases and less than 5 faculty cases
- Dutch Fork Middle: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Irmo Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Seven Oaks Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
Richland 1
- A.C. Flora High: Less than 5 student cases
- Columbia High: Less than 5 student cases
- Hand Middle: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Hopkins Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
Richland 2
- Catawba Trail Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Forest Lake Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
- L.B. Nelson Elementary: Less than 5 student cases
- Muller Road Middle: Less than 5 faculty cases
- Richland Northeast High: Less than 5 student cases
- Spring Valley High: Less than 5 student cases and less than 5 faculty cases
- Windsor Elementary: Less than 5 faculty cases
Lexington County private schools
- Arrows Academy: Less than 5 student cases
Richland County private schools
- Ben Lippen: Less than 5 student cases
- Cardinal Newman: Less than 5 student cases
- Hammond: Less than 5 student cases
- St. Peter’s Catholic School: Less than 5 student cases
This story was originally published September 18, 2020 at 3:35 PM.