Each school has a full-time registered nurse on duty to provide a variety of health-screening services, and to administer first aid. School nurses maintain health histories of all children and conduct vision, hearing, and scoliosis screenings during the year. It is important that parents keep the health office informed of any changes in their child's health.
State law requires physicals for children entering 2nd, 4th, 7th and 10th grades and all new admissions to the District. Whenever possible, physical examinations should be conducted by your family physician. If this is not possible, the school physician will perform the examination. If the health examination forms provided by the district are not returned to the Health Office by the end of September of the pertinent year, the child will be scheduled for a physical examination by the school physician. Students will be excluded from school for noncompliance with this requirement.
All schools are obliged to enforce the requirements of New York State Public Health Law, Section 2164.
As of July 1, 1981, no child shall be admitted to school, or in the case of students entering from outside New York, be allowed to attend school, in excess of fourteen days without satisfactory written evidence that the student has been immunized. Minimum requirements include:
- 3 doses of Diphtheria vaccine (administered as DTaP or TD);
- 3 doses of Polio vaccine; and
- 2 doses of Measles vaccine administered after 12 months of age;
- 1 dose of Mumps vaccine administered after 12 months of age;
- 1 dose of Rubella vaccine administered after 12 months of age, or
- 2 MMR vaccines, and
- 3 doses of Hepatitis vaccine
- 1 dose of Hib vaccine administered between the age of 15 months and 5 years (Preschool requirement only)
- 1 dose of Varicella vaccine for all children born on or after 1/1/98, and entering Kindergarten 9/1/03 and all children born after 1/1/00 for any school.
- All students born on or after January 1, 1994, and who enroll in the 6th grade at the beginning of 2005-06 school year must be immunized against Varicella.
- All students who are born on or after January 1, 2005, must be immunized against Pertussis and Tetanus.
- All students born after January 1, 1994 must have booster vaccinations for Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis upon entering the 6th grade.
Any student who does not meet the above-stated criteria is in violation of New York State Public Health Law, Section 2164, and will not be admitted to school until the student presents satisfactory written evidence of compliance.
