The school will continue monitoring the bat situation and has hired a professional cleaning company to deep clean the cafeteria, kitchen and affected classrooms.
The Forest Service's southern region will extend a closure order for all caves and mines on its lands until 2019 to help present the spread of white-nose syndrome, a disease fatal to many bats.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission reports that a national study has confirmed the presence of a fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats in one of the caves closed as a precaution to prevent the spread of the disease.