The COVID-19 testing data from several elite New York City private schools isn’t yet public.
There is no information from Dalton, Nightingale-Bamford, Packer Collegiate or Brooklyn Friends on the state Department of Health COVID-19 Report Card website.
The schools each charge more than $50,000 a year in tuition and their progressive agendas have sometimes erupted into controversy.
DOH regulations say “schools and school districts must submit daily reports to the
department of all COVID-19 testing and positive test results. This applies to public and private kindergarten, elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools, as well as any pre-kindergarten programs identified by the
department.”
The website, which went live this week after being “down for maintenance” since the start of school, shows the number of students and staff at each school and how many positive test results were tallied since Sept. 13.
Many of the city’s elite private schools reported just a handful of positive results, according to the site. But there were 11 positive cases among students at the Avenues school in Manhattan and 13, including two staff members, at the all-girls Chapin School on the Upper East Side.
After The Post reached out to the Dalton school in Manhattan, a spokesman said “the data has been submitted” but did not say when.
Brett Topel, a spokesman for Brooklyn Friends, said the school had technical difficulties reporting results online and that the DOH was aware of the issues. Four students tested positive for COVID-19 Friday, he said, the first such results since the school year started, and they had been reported to the state.
A spokesman for Nightingale-Bamford in Manhattan also blamed technical problems and said the school had submitted testing results — which showed one student and one teacher positive for COVID-19 — by email to the DOH.
A representative of Packer Collegiate in Brooklyn did not immediately return a request for comment.
“The Department of Health continues to monitor COVID-19 in our schools and communities and will enforce the requirement for schools to report to the State,” said DOH spokeswoman Abigail Barker.
