When to Keep Your Child Home

The main reason to keep your child home is if they are too sick to be comfortable at school or if they might spread a contagious disease to others. Your child should stay home if they have:

• Elevated temperature (100.4 degrees or higher)

• Acute cold symptoms or persistent cough
• Vomiting, nausea, repeated diarrhea, or severe stomach pain
• Red, inflamed eyes with thick discharge
• Widespread rash

24-Hour Rule for Returning to School

Students must be symptom-free for 24 hours before returning to school in the following situations:

• Fever: Children with a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher must be fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication
• Strep throat: Children must have 24 hours of antibiotic treatment and be fever-free
• Pink eye: Children must have 24 hours of antibiotic eye drops and symptoms must have subsided

Reporting Communicable or Infectious Diseases

Parents are requested to report all communicable or infectious diseases to the school nurse. Reportable diseases may include COVID-19, chicken pox, streptococcal infections, staphylococcal infections, influenza, hepatitis, mononucleosis, meningitis, encephalitis, tuberculosis, ringworm, pinworms, impetigo, and coxsackie.