Student Illness

When Your Student Is Ill

If your child becomes ill at school and needs to go home, the Health Services staff will contact a parent/guardian. If staff are unable to reach a parent/guardian and determine that the student must go home, emergency contacts will then be called. It is important to have all contact information up-to-date, and that someone can be reached during school hours.

When a student is ill, parents/guardians often wonder when to keep a child home from school.  

Reasons why children should stay at home:

1. Child is not feeling well and is unable to participate in routine activities or needs more care than can be provided by the childcare/school staff.  Child is unusually tired.
2. Fever: An elevated body temperature of 100 degrees F or higher with or without symptoms of an illness.  (Measure temperature before giving medication to reduce fever.)
3. Severe colds, coughs, sore throats, or difficulty breathing.
4. Vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and/or abdominal pain.
5. New skin rashes or mouth sores, unless medical opinion indicates the child may return
6. Until results of laboratory tests (i.e. throat culture, nasal swab) are known.

Children may return to school when:

1. Body temperature remains normal for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medication.
2. No vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain for the previous 24 hours.
3. Well enough to participate in routine school activities
4. Your healthcare provider states that your child can return to school.

Current CDC COVID-19 Guidance

Remember: The #1 way to prevent the spread of germs is to wash your hands.