Summerlin charter school to close Friday after students fall ill

The parking lot at Doral Academy Red Rock Elementary School, 626 Cross Bridge Road in Las Vegas, is empty on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

An empty parking lot at Doral Academy Red Rock Elementary School is seen on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in Las Vegas. The school will be closed Friday so the campus can be cleaned following reports that students are sick with a stomach bug. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

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By Dalton LaFerney / Las Vegas Review-Journal

February 27, 2020 - 7:18 pm

Updated February 28, 2020 - 7:36 am

Doral Academy Red Rock Elementary School will be closed Friday so the campus can be cleaned following reports that students are sick with a stomach bug, Southern Nevada health officials announced Thursday.

The Southern Nevada Health District, in a letter to parents, said crews will conduct a “deep cleaning and disinfection” Friday in the charter school. In its own letter to parents, the school wrote that school officials contacted the health district Thursday morning amid a “high number” students complaining of stomach issues.

Health district spokeswoman Jennifer Sizemore confirmed that the students who are sick span multiple grade levels at the Summerlin school.

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