🩺 Student Health & Wellness
Keeping our students healthy helps everyone learn and thrive. If your child is feeling ill, please review the guidelines below before sending them to school.
🤒 When Should My Child Stay Home?
Please keep your child home if they have any of the following symptoms or conditions:
- Fever: A temperature of 100°F or higher. Your child may return to school after being fever-free for at least 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication.
- Sore Throat: Especially when accompanied by a fever or swollen glands. Students diagnosed with strep throat may return 24 hours after beginning antibiotics, provided they are fever-free and feeling well enough to participate.
- Diarrhea: Three or more loose stools within a 24-hour period.
- Vomiting: Two or more episodes within a 24-hour period. Students should remain home until they have been symptom-free for at least 24 hours.
- Rash: Especially if accompanied by fever, itching, swelling, or other signs of illness. Please consult your healthcare provider before your child returns to school.
- Persistent Cough or Significant Nasal Discharge: If symptoms interfere with learning or may indicate a contagious illness.
- Ear Pain with Fever: May be a sign of an ear infection and should be evaluated by a healthcare provider.
- Eye Redness or Drainage: Redness, crusting, swelling, pain, or thick drainage may indicate conjunctivitis (pink eye).
- Chickenpox: Students should remain home until all blisters have dried and crusted over, typically about 5 days after the rash begins.
- General Signs of Illness: Extreme fatigue, unusual sleepiness, persistent pain, confusion, difficulty waking, or other symptoms that prevent your child from participating in the school day.
🦠 Flu, RSV & COVID-19
Students experiencing symptoms of the flu, RSV, COVID-19, or other respiratory illnesses should stay home until:
- They have been fever-free for at least 24 hours without fever-reducing medication, and
- Their symptoms are improving, and they feel well enough to participate in normal school activities.
If your child tests positive for COVID-19, please follow the guidance provided by your healthcare provider and use good judgment to help prevent spreading illness to others.
❤️ Thank You
Thank you for partnering with us to keep our school community healthy. If you have questions about your child’s health or medication needs during the school day, please contact the school clinic.