Arkansas – There are now 150 Arkansas school districts that have had 50 or more new known COVID-19 infections per 10,000 district residents over a 14-day period, up from 113 a week ago and a new record high, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement said Thursday.
43 school districts were added to the list this week, and 107 remained on the list.
ACHI also found that 23 school districts — up from 15 the previous week, also a record high — had exceeded 100 new known infections per 10,000 district residents over a 14-day period, or more than 1% of district residents: Paragould, Danville, Green Forest, Piggott, McGehee, Elkins, Monticello, Dardanelle, Hermitage, Star City, Blytheville, Bay, Drew Central, Pottsville, Barton-Lexa, Trumann, Warren, East Poinsett County, Cleveland County, Magazine, Clinton, Valley View, and Searcy County.
ACHI identified school districts with high infection rates by analyzing data received Monday from the Arkansas Department of Health. The infections are among community residents living within the geographical boundaries of the school districts and are not specific to school employees and students. Known infections include confirmed and probable cases. Probable cases are based on verbal reporting and antigen test results, as identified by the department of health.
ACHI identifies districts with 50 to 99 new known infections per 10,000 residents as being in the “red zone” and districts with 100 or more new known infections per 10,000 residents as being in the “purple zone.” The districts are shaded in these colors on the school district map on ACHI’s COVID-19 in Arkansas web page at achi.net/covid19.
Rates of new known infections in school districts across the state, as well as counts of cumulative and new infections, are tracked on ACHI’s COVID-19 in Arkansas web page. Rates and counts are not shown for districts with fewer than five infections, to reduce the possibility of identifying individuals. School district counts do not include infections among incarcerated populations, in nursing homes, or in human development centers.
As of Monday, the following 150 school districts had a rate of at least 50 new known infections per 10,000 district residents over the previous 14 days. An asterisk denotes a district that entered the list this week.
Alma
Alpena
Arkadelphia*
Atkins
Augusta*
Barton-Lexa – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Bauxite
Bay – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Bearden
Benton
Bergman
Berryville
Blytheville – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Booneville
Bradford
Brinkley*
Brookland
Bryant
Buffalo Island Central
Cabot*
Caddo Hills
Camden Fairview
Carlisle
Cedar Ridge
Centerpoint
Clarendon
Clarksville
Cleveland County – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Clinton* – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Concord
Conway
Corning
County Line
Cutter-Morning Star*
Danville – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Dardanelle – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Dermott
Dover
Drew Central – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Dumas*
East Poinsett County – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Elkins – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
England*
Eureka Springs*
Farmington
Fayetteville
Fordyce
Fort Smith
Gentry
Glen Rose
Gosnell
Green Forest – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Greenbrier*
Greene County Tech
Greenland*
Greenwood*
Gurdon
Guy-Perkins*
Hamburg*
Harmony Grove (Saline County)
Harrisburg
Harrison
Hazen*
Heber Springs*
Hermitage – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Highland*
Hope*
Horatio*
Huntsville
Jackson County
Jasper
Jessieville*
Jonesboro
Kirby
Lakeside #1
Lavaca*
Lawrence County
Lead Hill*
Lee County
Lincoln*
Little Rock
Lonoke*
Magazine – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Magnolia*
Malvern
Mammoth Spring
Manila
Marion
Marked Tree*
Marmaduke
Marvell*
Maynard*
McCrory*
McGehee – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Mena
Midland
Monticello – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Mount Ida
Mountain View
Mulberry/Pleasant View
Nashville*
Nemo Vista
Nettleton
Newport
Omaha
Osceola
Ouachita River
Ouachita*
Ozark
Paragould – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Pea Ridge*
Piggott – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Pocahontas
Pottsville – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Poyen*
Prairie Grove
Prescott
Pulaski County Special*
Quitman*
Rector
Rivercrest
Riverside
Riverview*
Rogers
Russellville
Salem
Scranton*
Searcy County – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Sheridan
Siloam Springs
Sloan-Hendrix
Smackover
South Conway County
South Side*
Springdale
Star City – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Trumann – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Two Rivers*
Valley Springs
Valley View – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
Van Buren
Vilonia*
Waldron
Warren – rate of 100 or more new known infections per 10K residents
West Fork*
Westside Consolidated
White County Central*
White Hall
Wynne
Yellville-Summit*
The following six districts were in the red or purple zone a week earlier but have dropped below that level this week: Armorel, Batesville, Hampton, Harmony Grove, Mayflower, and Woodlawn.