{"id":294462,"date":"2026-05-15T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:39:07","slug":"texas-district-closes-schools-after-illness-sickens-dozens-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294462\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas district closes schools after illness sickens dozens of students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ganado ISD southwest of Houston closed schools today due to a large number of illnesses at the elementary school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100063616356988\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">school district located on U.S. 59<\/a> between Houston and Victoria has roughly 740 students. Approximately 90 elementary students were out sick or sent home from Ganado Elementary this week, according to a Facebook post from the school district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, the district announced it would close all three campuses Friday. The school system includes 349 elementary students, 172 junior-high students and 220 high-school students, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganadoisd.org\/about-us\/district-info\/our-district\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to information<\/a> from the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each year, we build our calendar in anticipation of such days,&#8221; according to the Facebook post. &#8220;Parents, we sincerely apologize for the short notice, but please understand that we highly value the welfare of all students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All schools will be sanitized over the weekend and the district officials said\u00a0school will resume Monday. The school district&#8217;s last day for 2025-26 is Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ganado ISD southwest of Houston closed schools today due to a large number of illnesses at the elementary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-294462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}