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Information Needed by the School

It is important for the school:

  • To have emergency telephone numbers for you, and someone else who can help, if you are not available.
  • To have a contact person for you who is English speaking
  • To know about any health problems your child now has or has had in the past.
  • To be called when you are keeping your child home.
  • To know if your child has a condition which could be spread to others.

Communicable Disease Policy

Your school health assistant helps control and prevent communicable diseases.  Reports to the Health Department are made. We need your help.  Your health assistant assists school personnel in identifying disease.  Please call your school and report your child’s absence and the condition or disease he/she has.  The following are the regulations for the more common diseases.

Chicken pox 
Exclusion from school until free of symptoms and until all the vesicles have crusted (usually 5-6 days).  Face and hands should be free of scabs. 

Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
A person with inflammation of the eye or eyelid shall be excluded from school until (1) the inflammation has cleared, or (2) a physician certifies that the student does not have conjunctivitis in an infectious stage.

Head Lice 
Any person with lice or nits will be excluded from school until adequately treated and all nits are removed.

Impetigo
Exclusion from school while lesions remain or until a physician certifies the student is under adequate and continuing treatment.

Strep Throat
The most common type of streptococcal infection is Strep Throat.  Symptoms usually appear suddenly and may include sore throat, chills, fever, headache, nausea and even vomiting.  The throat is beefy red and tonsils are swollen.  In very young children the only symptoms may be a runny nose.  To diagnosis Strep, the doctor must do a throat culture.  Antibiotics are usually ordered and the child may return to school after 24 hours on the antibiotics, as long as they are free off fever and feel okay.  Strep is contagious and may spread to other family members.  A student’s throat has been culture is to be absent from school until the results are known to be negative in strep growth. 

 

When to Return my Child to School

Healthy students make better learners.  Your school health assistant recommends that you return your child to school when the following occurs:

  • Temperature is normal for past 24 hours
  • Feels well enough to be in school for the full day
  • No vomiting/loose stools for at least a day
  • After head lice treatment and ALL nits removed
  • Please send a note with your child when they return to school explaining their absence.

 

Immunization Requirments

The State of Arizona requires students to be immunized before enrolling in school. Current immunization requirements for K through 12 are:

Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertussis(DT or DPT or DTaP or Td)

  • 3 doses with the last dose on or after age 4
  • Kindergartners need 4 doses with the last dose on or after age 4

Polio

  • 3 doses with the last dose on or after age 4
  • Kindergartners need 3 dose with last doe on or after age 4

MMR

  • 1st dose after age one
  • 2nd dose before Kindergarten (2 doses Measles;  1 dose Mumps & 1 dose Rubella ) both given after age one and at least 28 days apart
  • Students New to the School:  2nd dose of Measles; (1 dose Mumps & 1 dose Rubella) both given after age one and at least 28 days apart

Hepatitis B (Hep B)

  • 3 doses required for ALL students

Meningococcal Vaccine

  • for students who are 11 years old or over

TDAP Vaccine

  • for students 11 years and older when 5 years have passed since the last Tetanus/Diptheria Vaccine dose

 

 

 

Important Forms

  • Sports Physical Examination Forms [part completed by Physician]  [part completed by Parent]