BROCTON — Brocton Central School will spend the rest of November with students learning online.

The move to online learning is not being caused by any student cases of COVID-19. Jason Delcamp, Brocton Central School superintendent, said Tuesday night that the district has had some staff members placed on mandatory quarantine by the state Department of Health for their exposure to a positive COVID-19 case.

Those quarantines mean district officials weren’t sure they would have enough staff to cover the entire building.

“We’re going to have some key staff that are being quarantined,” Delcamp said. “My concern is when you contact trace, you take it back a few days and if they happen to come down with it they’ve been exposing people. We want to minimize that from taking place.”

More information will be released today on the Brocton Central School website at www.broctoncsd.org. Elementary school children won’t have any paper packets to pick up, and Delcamp said the district’s decision to be have all children be learning virtually at least one day this week should mean teachers and students are ready for the rest of November.

“We’ve been on a hybrid schedule, so our teachers have been prepared that if we had to do this they’re ready to go,” Delcamp said. “At least one day a week all kids have been on a hybrid schedule, so they’re familiar with it.”

Bemus Point Elementary School recently resumed in-person learning after 11 teachers were placed into precautionary quarantine. Dunkirk School No. 7 and Silver Creek Elementary School also made similar moves in late October.