Government of Jersey

School COVID cases 2020 to 2022 (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 25 October 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

For the academic year 2020/21, please can you provide the total number of Covid cases reported for each academic year group vs the number of students registered in each year group during the year.

For the academic year 2021/22, please can you provide the total number of Covid cases reported for each academic year group vs the number of students registered in each year group during the year.

Response

Information for the academic year 2020/21 is not held in this format, therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The table below represents the total number of Covid cases reported for each year group for the academic year 2021/2022. This shows numbers in schools only and excludes Highlands College and private nurseries. Some children may have tested positive on more than one occasion therefore the case count shows the number of confirmed positive tests rather than the number of children.

Primary	N	R	1	2	3	4	5	6
Total Covid cases	255	551	637	640	777	765	975	877
Total Pupil numbers in Year Group*	613	980	1064	988	1041	1065	1191	1088

Secondary	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Total Covid cases	774	693	704	653	584	310	236
Total Pupil numbers in Year Group*	1047	1016	1079	1006	1000	595	543

*Total pupil numbers in year group taken from spring term census

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.