Student Illness Guidelines

  • To minimize the spread of infectious disease and to provide for a safe environment, students should be kept home from school for: 

    • Fever greater than 100° within the last 24 hours
    • Fever should be under 100° for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications before returning to school 
    • Vomiting-or-diarrhea within the last 24 hours 
    • A communicable disease 
    • Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath 
    • New loss of taste or smell 
    • Muscle aches or body aches not due to a known cause 
    • An upper respiratory illness with significant coughing and/or nasal discharge 
    • Pain that requires the use of narcotic medications