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The Long Beach Unified School District has so far had 38 coronavirus cases connected to its students, employees or campuses, according to a new data dashboard the district recently launched.

The LBUSD currently has only about 1,600 students on campuses for child development, Head Start or Kids Club programs—a small portion of the 70,000 students in the district as a whole. The dashboard shows that since those 1,600 students returned to campus on Sept. 1, 11 have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 25 employees and two visitors/outside vendors. There were 22 positive tests in September, 15 in October, and one so far in November.

The LBUSD launched the portal on Oct. 29 about three months prior to its planned Jan. 28 return to in-person classes. However, that return will likely be dependent on coronavirus conditions improving enough that Los Angeles County is moved into the state’s “red” tier of restrictions, which allows campuses to welcome students back. Recently, LA County has been moving in the wrong direction, with an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Some LBUSD teachers are already back on campus teaching virtually from empty classrooms, but most opted to teach from home or an alternate work site. The LBUSD’s central administration and its school administrators (principals, counselors) have been working on campus throughout the summer and the school year so far. In total, more than 4,000 employees are working in schools and central offices, according to the district.

In recent weeks, parent groups pressuring the district to reopen have asked it to increase transparency with its coronavirus data, and LBUSD superintendent Jill Baker said at a recent board meeting that publishing the dashboard was toward that end.

The dashboard can be segmented to show positive tests by school, although that information is not available on the dashboard in a list format, making it awkward to hunt down exactly what schools the cases are linked to.

Other school districts in Orange County that have returned to in-person learning have also published similar public portals. Those districts are smaller in size and number of schools, but they also include more easily accessible school-by-school information with a listing of those sites as well as the number of students and staff at each one.

Los Alamitos Unified has been back in school for more than a month, and lists that there are currently nine positive cases of COVID-19 out of the 8,414 students and employees who returned to campus. Los Alamitos’ dashboard does not include data on the number of recovered cases.

The Huntington Beach Unified High School District returned to campus this week and also launched a dashboard which currently shows no confirmed cases. That dashboard, like Los Alamitos’ is not set up to display recovered cases.

The LBUSD’s dashboard also includes sample notices sent to parents and staff warning them when sites have cases.