Update: Wiscasset Elementary and Wiscasset Middle High schools will stay remote through Friday, Feb. 4 and resume in-person learning Monday, Feb. 7, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced Tuesday, Feb. 1.

Original post: Maine Center for Disease Control notified Wiscasset School Department, the department was in outbreak status, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced Jan. 27. “We are beginning to see an increased number of students who will be required to quarantine and isolate within the past week,” Wood wrote families in a letter posted at wiscassetschools.org

The outbreak status was “due to the number of students absent from both schools due to illness,” Wood wrote. She said both schools would move to remote learning Friday, Jan. 28 through Wednesday, Feb. 2. “We will reassess the situation on Tuesday, Feb. 1, and make any further decisions regarding continuing remote learning at both schools or returning to in-person instruction. We will notify you as soon as possible with any changes. Students who attend (Bath Regional Career and Technical Center) need to contact the bus garage for transportation or be at  (Wiscasset Middle High School) for regular arrival and departure times.”

The Jan. 27 letter noted Food Service Director Lorie Johnson would be sending out a form to request meals. “Please follow the protocol from previous closings regarding the pickup of meals. Please feel free to contact Nurse Marilyn (Sprague) (882-7767) or email her at msprague@wiscassetschools.org and Sommer Maybee (882-7722) or email her at smaybee@wiscassetschools.org as well as the building administrators if you have any questions. Thank you again for your patience and support as we maneuver through this pandemic.”

According to a separate post on the site Jan. 28, WMHS had 27 positive results for COVID-19 that week; Wiscasset Elementary School, seven; the prior week, WMHS, six; WES, 13.