Health Services

General stay home guidelines for illness:

Individuals should stay home if they have: 

• Fever of 100 degrees F within the last 24 hours, without the use of fever reducing medication ("Tylenol" or ibuprofen type medicines)
• Diarrhea or vomiting within the last 24 hours 
• Uncontrolled cough
• Mucus/sputum that is green or yellow and cannot be contained 
• Strep (may return to school 12 hours after start of antibiotic)
• Chicken pox (may return when pox are crusted over) 
• An open wound that cannot be covered

Contagious Diseases

Please inform the health office if your child has been diagnosed by a physician with any highly contagious disease. The information will be kept confidential, but it is important to prevent the spread of disease. Contact Health office for:

• Chicken pox or shingles
• COVID-19
• Fifth's disease
• Head lice, even after treatment
• Impetigo
• Influenza
• Open wound that cannot be covered
• Pertussis (whooping cough)
• Strep

Does a student have a chronic health condition the school should know about?

Please submit the appropriate forms below to notify of a child's needs. Once completed, return the forms to the health staff as they work to develop a plan to keep each student healthy at school. Forms are required to be updated each year.

What to do if a child tests positive for COVID-19

Notify the School

1. Send an email to the school's Health Office AND the child's teacher(s) to notify them that the child has tested positive for COVID-19. 

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2. Report the absence from school to the school Attendance Office. NOTE: The absence only needs to be submitted once for the entire time a child is out due to COVID.

   • (Preferred method) Report a student's absence in Powerschool. Be sure to include the reason for the absence as a positive COVID-19 test result in the comments section.  

   • Call the school's Attendance Line. Please include the child's first and last name, spelling of the last name, grade, reason for absence and a return phone number.

Isolate at Home

When people get sick with a respiratory virus, the updated CDC guidance recommends that they stay home and away from others. For people with COVID-19 and influenza, treatment is available and can lessen symptoms and lower the risk of severe illness. The recommendations suggest returning to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, symptoms are improving overall, and if a fever was present, it has been gone without use of a fever-reducing medication.

Once people resume normal activities, they are encouraged to take additional prevention strategies for the next five days to curb disease spread, such as taking more steps for cleaner air, enhancing hygiene practices, wearing a well-fitting mask, keeping a distance from others, and/or getting tested for respiratory viruses. 

If someone in your household has a confirmed case of COVID-19,  limit their exposure to others. It is recommended to wear a mask and get tested.

Note about missed assignments

Class assignments are available on Schoology and Seesaw or from a teacher, however, students are not expected to keep up with school work when they are out sick or on quarantine. As with any excused absence from school, students are provided time to make-up missed assignments after returning to school.

Household contacts

If someone in your household has a confirmed case of COVID-19, you should do your best to limit their exposure to others. Individuals with COVID-19 must quarantine and may not come to school. Others living in the home can continue to go to child care, school, youth program, camp and other community activities or they may choose to quarantine. All household members should continue to monitor for symptoms and consider being tested.