Butler Intermediate High School and McQuistion Elementary School are switching to remote instruction on Tuesday as a result of school community members testing positive for COVID-19.

Instruction for all students, including those in special education self-contained classrooms will be remote until Friday, when students will be able to return to school in person using the cohort schedule. Friday will be an in-person day for the White (L-Z) Cohort, according to Superintendent Brian White.

Close contacts have been notified, and the schools will be cleaned and sanitized while they are closed. When in-person classes resume Friday, the number of COVID-19 cases associated with the school will reset to zero and a new 14-day period will begin.

This is the procedure the state is requiring all school districts to follow to be able to open their schools for in-person instruction while COVID-19 community spread is in the “substantial” range, White said.