Students and teachers in a first-grade class at Nayatt Elementary School have been asked to quarantine after one of the students tested positive for the coronavirus recently.

Barrington Superintendent of Schools Michael Messore said he learned over the weekend about the positive case. He said the Rhode Island Department of Health has called people who came into contact with the student and asked them to quarantine.

Mr. Messore said officials decided to have the members of the first grade class quarantine "out of an abundance of caution."

The Nayatt School first-grader is the third confirmed case of a Barrington student testing positive for the coronavirus since the beginning of school on Sept. 14.

A Barrington High School freshman was the first to test positive — school officials shared that information in a school-wide letter to parents of BHS students on Sept. 22. Two days later, a second student at the high school — another freshman — tested positive.

A group of students who had been in contact with those students were asked to quarantine.

Mr. Messore said that no additional cases had been reported from the high school as of Monday, Oct. 5.