NEENAH, WI (WTAQ) – Three schools in northeast Wisconsin evacuated on Wednesday after receiving threatening phone calls.
In Green Bay, district leaders said that a threat made to Nicolet Elementary School was deemed, “not credible.”
According to a post on the Neenah Joint School District’s Twitter account, students from Shattuck Middle School, 600 Elm St., were evacuated to the football stadium after a call came in at 9:47 a.m.
District spokesman Jim Strick said that police were contacted and searched the school building. Nothing was found and the threat was also deemed not credible. Students and staff were able to return to the building in about an hour.
Meanwhile, an elementary school in Fond du Lac was also evacuated for a time Wednesday morning following a phone threat.
The school district says students and staff from Evans Elementary School, 140 S. Peters Ave., were evacuated while police searched the building.
Officers determined the threat was not credible, and allowed students and staff back into the school.
It is unknown whether the threats are connected or related to a series of threats made to schools across the U.S. and United Kingdom on Monday. In those cases, schools received what they described as automated calls.
Schools in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh and Manitowoc were among the schools that received threats.
Also on Wednesday, Franklin High School and County Line Elementary School in Germantown were evacuated after receiving what was described as a computer-generated threat.
