After consulting with the Long Beach Island Board of Health, LBI Consolidated school officials closed the district’s two elementary schools beginning Monday, March 16, according to a message from Superintendent Peter Kopack on the district’s website. The schools will remain closed through March 27.

“As of today, there are no confirmed cases of Covid-19” in the LBI Grade School or the Ethel Jacobsen Elementary School, district officials said in a statement addressing the school closings.