Leechburg Area School District added a covid case tracker to its website.

In a weekly email update to district families Friday, Superintendent Tiffany Nix explained the reason for adding the new link.

“This will be much easier for you to access any district information that you may need or want concerning covid-19,” Nix wrote.

Nix said the tracker was added to provide an additional layer of transparency.

“I want our families and community members to know what is happening in our school and feel safe knowing that, as a district, we are being proactive and honest,” Nix said. “Health and safety are always our top priorities.”

The covid tracker displays the latest positive covid cases in the district and data from the site Monday listed 2 total active cases on campus, one in the elementary and one in the middle schools.

There have been 16 cases year-to-date.

Total inactive cases are 14.

Nix said the covid tracker will be updated as positive cases are added and cases move past the 10 days of being active.

The district has 750 students in grades K-12.

“Even though we added the tracker, I will still be notifying families of updated case counts,” Nix wrote.

In other business

Nix confirmed virtual Wednesdays will continue for the remainder of the school year and the last day of school for students is scheduled for June 4.

All students learn remotely via Chromebooks and Google classroom on Wednesdays.

That’s when the district buildings are sanitized.

Nix reminded parents that the Leechburg Police Department has requested that families driving their children to school not get out of their cars when dropping off students because it’s causing traffic to back up on First Street.

“Drop off and leave,” Nix wrote.

Children are asked to exit the vehicle on the sidewalk side for safety reasons.

Vehicles should pull up to the end of Siberian Avenue and drop off.

“We understand it is cold, but we can not have traffic backed up,” Nix wrote.

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