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When to Keep Your Child Home from School
Guidance for Common Signs and Symptoms of Illness

Overview

Children should attend school every day and may attend school with mild or improving symptoms.  This guidance, based on CDPH recommendations, will help you decide whether your child is too sick to attend school.

If your child has symptoms that prevent them from participating meaningfully in school please keep your child at home.  Otherwise follow the symptom guidance below to decide whether they can attend school. A doctor鈥檚 note is generally not required to return to school.

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Medical Exemptions

Under State law SB 277, effective January 1, 2016 parents may no longer cite personal beliefs to exempt their children from vaccines required for school. Most families will not be affected by the new law because their children have received all required vaccinations.

Personal beliefs exemptions on file for a child already attending child care will NO LONGER BE VALID when enrolling into kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten (Early Kinder).

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California Digital Vaccine Record

Parents and G鈥媢ardians! Did you know you can use the California Digital Vaccine Record portal to access your child鈥檚 immunization records? Request a digital copy of your child鈥檚 records for childcare or school at 

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Head Lice 鈥� Help and Resources

Head lice are common in school age children.  Head lice are unpleasant but they do not spread disease. District policy encourages detection and treatment that minimizes disruption to the educational program and reduces student absences. 

Find reliable up-to-date information about how to get rid of a lice infestation from the .  

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Health eTraining Courses

Overview

We have developed seven different sessions that address common health conditions within the school setting.  This information is intended to be informational only, and does not substitute for medical advice in the event of an emergency.  In the event of an emergency, please call 911 immediately. 

All students with health conditions should be managed by their own primary care providers.  However, some conditions require additional monitoring within the school setting.  These modules can be used as a reference for all school personnel.  Additional, specific instructions may be developed for individual students as needed. 

If you have any further questions regarding the posted information or concerns regarding a specific student, please contact the Health Services Department at (916) 643-9412.