Four students at the Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center, including two from the Upper Perkiomen School District, have tested positive for COVID-19. The local students last attended the school – located at 77 Graterford Road in Limerick on Oct. 30.

            As of Nov. 5, no other students have tested positive, according to Stephen Cunningham, a member of the Upper Perkiomen School Board and chair of the school's Joint Operating Committee. He said Monday that administrators have no plans to stop in-person learning at the facility.

            Both Upper Perkiomen students – who tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Nov. 2 – were exposed outside the school, according to Cunningham. Parents were informed three days later. The school board member did not know the gender of the students or in which municipality they resided.

            Ten other children who rode the school bus with the infected students will be forced to quarantine until Nov. 16. The parents of those potential close contacts were alerted on Oct. 31, according to Cunningham

            On Oct. 26, two other students from either Spring-Ford or Pottsgrove high schools tested positive for the virus. Both were also exposed outside the school, according to Cunningham. He said as a letter was sent to families alerting them of the situation, and no other students were directed to quarantine following the diagnoses.

            According to Cunningham, the tech school has no plan to alter its full in-person instructional model. He said administrators have done a "phenomenal job" maintaining the necessary distance for students and instructors.

            Christopher E. Moritzen, the facility's administrative director, claimed in a July 24 letter to students, parents, staff and the community that the school's unique size and space will allow for every classroom and lab to have six feet of social distancing with current enrollment.