Please let the Health Office/ Secretary know ASAP if your child has a medical condition or requires medication or emergency measures, examples would be:

Asthma, Life-threatening allergies, Diabetes or Seizures. Any emergency medications (Epi Pens, Benadryl, inhalers or glucagon) must be provided to the school with a signed doctors note to administer if needed. If your student carries their emergency medications please notify the health office staff.

ALL emergency medications MUST be picked up by the end of the calendar school year.

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Basic Illness Guidelines

Antibiotic Treatment:  Student must be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.  However, antibiotics should be continued for the entirety of the prescription to insure infection has been properly treated.

Chickenpox:  Students must stay home until all of the pox marks have scabbed over, generally 7 days.

Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) or Eye Drainage:  Students must be on treatment for 24 hours before returning to school.

Diarrhea:  Students must be free of a diarrheal episode for at least 24 hours before returning to school.

(Temperature of 100° F or more):  Student must be fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school.

Fifths Disease:  Students must be fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school.

Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease:  Students can return to school once symptoms subside.

Impetigo:  Students must be on treatment for 24 hours before returning to school.

Measles:  Students must stay home for 5 days after rash appears.

Mumps: Students must stay home for 9 days after swelling begins and must be fever-free before returning to school.

Pediculosis (Head Lice):  If lice is found, parents will be called and given the option of picking up their child, or the child staying in school until the end of the day. Lice needs to be treated that night, and the nits carefully removed from the scalp, students can return to school.  Generally, students can return to school the next day if the lice have been properly treated.

Ringworm:  Students must be on treatment for 24 hours before returning to school.

Scabies:  Students must be on treatment for 24 hours before returning to school.

Strep Throat:  Students must be fever-free and on treatment for 24 hours before returning to school.

Vomiting:  Students must be free of a vomiting episode for at least 24 hours before returning to school.