Parents and students are on alert after several threats across multiple school districts in the Ozarks, including two in 48 hours directed at schools in Nixa.

The Nixa Police Department said this was a web-based threat and was similar to one Wednesday at High Pointe Elementary.

Nixa Police stated the sweep is complete and the school is all clear. Police stated that they believe yesterday’s High Pointe Elementary and today’s Espy Elementary bomb threats came from the same general area.

The bomb threat directed at Nixa's Espy Elementary on Thursday is "very similar" to the one received by Nixa's High Pointe Elementary on Wednesday.

The threat targeted at High Pointe Elementary was web-based, according to the Nixa Police Department, and an investigation is ongoing.

This week, two elementary schools in Nixa became the targets of bomb threats amid an uptick of school safety concerns across Missouri and the U.S. The unfounded threats, which Nixa police say were made online, prompted the Wednesday afternoon evacuation of High Pointe Elementary and Thursday afternoon evacuation of Espy Elementary.

The Nixa Police Department (NPD) says that High Pointe Elementary is all clear after a full search of the premises came up clean. NPD is still investigating the source of the bomb threat at High Pointe Elementary but did determine the threat was web-based and there was a similar threat sent

A bomb threat called in to Bellefonte Elementary School on Friday afternoon was deemed to be "not credible" after an investigation, the school district wrote in an email to families. The "nonspecific" bomb threat was made in a voicemail on the school's attendance line shortly before dismissal,