This is interesting to look at re school closures

[Sausagessizzling]

www.schoolcovidmap.org.uk

Tells you the case rate in area of school catchment. May be useful for school staff/parents deciding what to do.

Yes I agree, would be useful if it had positive cases per school only.

I don't think that site is correct.
It tells me that the rate in my schools's area is 93/100,000, but the map on Gov.U.K. Says it is 36.6/100,000 for the same period.

@Sausagessizzling

www.schoolcovidmap.org.uk

Tells you the case rate in area of school catchment. May be useful for school staff/parents deciding what to do.

I’m not sure how accurate that is. It’s saying the Covid level around my children’s school is much less than what the paper and school is saying

290 per 100,000. We’ve had confirmation school will be open tomorrow and mine are going in.

Checked where I work and it’s 377 - which is coming down.

School catchment is 200 per 100k, our actual borough is 160 per 100k.

According to the map @MrsPernicious posted a link to our rate has gone down 3% in the last 7 days which is positive for me.

It isn’t correct. I’ve checked the Gov map. Rolling average for my children’s school area is 800 in 100,000 not 494 which covid map for schools states

Please check here instead

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map

Ours was a lot higher in sept/Oct/nov and has gone down in sept. It’s creeping up but only around 180. Given it used to be between 400-700 that’s a lot better.

That being said my DS year group was the only year group that didn’t need to self isloate multiple times. One year group managed a day out of isolation before they went back into again 🤣 so i would imagine this will be a feature of this next term

1018 here per 100,000

@CoffeeCreamandSugar I have always found it accurate for my area - are you looking at the local authority level, or the district (MSOA) level? The rate they give on here for the school should be that for the district and all bordering districts, which isn’t something that is published on the gov website at all (you’d have to zoom in on the map and add in the few areas they include)

@Sausagessizzling

Can you please have the title amended to say this is only relevant in England and Wales?
Thanks.

[quote MrsPernicious]@RedskyAtnight , worth reading the school map methodology. They are combining neighbouring MSOAs to get a more realistic catchment area.

I do worry that loads of the infection rate figures are way out as they are using population counts from the last census. In some areas this will be way out.[/quote]
Thanks - the methodology is interesting (parts reproduced below)
We have calculated the rate for the MSOA the school is in and the MSOAs that border it. This is the area most local to a school. The Government report the number of COVID cases by MSOA, we have summed the cases and divided it by the combined population.

For my DC's school which has a defined catchment, which is not evenly distributed around the school, and includes housing areas that didn't exist at the last census, I suspect the figure on this site is not particularly meaningful (when I looked at it, I did think it was low, but this now makes more sense). In areas where there is no defined catchment and the school is in a built up area that hasn't changed much since last census, I suspect it's more relevant.

I'm not sure why you think it's better than the interactive map or the Zoe map data? It doesn't give any specific information about schools. If there was actually a map that listed number of school cases by school, that would be useful.

Yes I agree, would be useful if it had positive cases per school only

In a lot of places even school staff aren’t given that info! In some cases teachers aren’t even told which of the children they teach (and thus may have had close contact with) have tested positive - I found a couple out by their friends telling me.

[quote ceeveebee]@CoffeeCreamandSugar I have always found it accurate for my area - are you looking at the local authority level, or the district (MSOA) level? The rate they give on here for the school should be that for the district and all bordering districts, which isn’t something that is published on the gov website at all (you’d have to zoom in on the map and add in the few areas they include)[/quote]
I’ve looked at both. The figure for the town is correct. The figure for the district isn’t. The figure for the district should be just under 800 not 494. I can get the exact district up on the Gov map

Our school is 315, a mile away. The closest school is 494. That's a massive difference for about 1.5 miles

Thanks for the link. I've used the letter template to email my mp. Added my own bit in too

900 per 100k here. London Borough, Tier 4.

Expected to return to work in my early years setting this week, whilst my primary aged DD will be cared for at school on a critical worker placement. Emphasis on "cared for". I will still be expected to home-educate her after work.

Not going to lie, I'm anxious and resigned to the fact that despite my best efforts I am going to catch this through work, where there are zero mitigating measures in place. As a single parent, I just pray I will be well enough to look after DD if/when it happens.

@CoffeeCreamandSugar - on the map for my school it combines the cases and population for all 5 bordering districts (if you click on the info icon it tells you which ones) so perhaps your area is bordered by some areas that have lower rates so bringing the average down?
Anyway it’s not that useful unless it gets the catchment area right, I can see from mine that it is missing one big district.

So interesting - decrease in a week of over 300. This was obviously because schools closed, therefore it doesn’t really help, as they’ll increase massively when pupils go back in.

This link also works, and is government figures, not from a union. We all know what people seem to think about teaching unions right now. The slider also allows you to see how the rates have changed/accelerated.

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map

I know from this that I'm not happy going into my own school to work (rates above 800), but that I'm fine for my child to go to school this week. Might change next week, as rates are rising quickly.

340 but one of about the only areas I can find where its going down. We are down 50 this week apparently, where surrounding areas are up 100ish

172 here up from 83 last week (was 48 week before). But the Londoners arrived to their second homes 2 weeks ago and they hopefully will be disappearing back soon and their kids don't go to school here

Ours is the highest in the district and above the national average and above the neighbouring tier 4 area.