In order to provide the healthiest school environment possible, please do not send your child to school when symptoms of illness are present.
Children must be fever free without medication for 24 hours before returning to school. If a child is being treated for a contagious illness or condition such as strep throat, impetigo or conjunctivitis, they must complete a full 24 hour course of antibiotics before returning to school.
Temperature over 100.0 within the last 24 hours.
Persistent cough or cough with fever.
Severe cold symptoms.
Severe headache or abdominal pain.
Suspected infection of eye, ear, nose, throat, or skin (unless under physician's care for 24 hours).
Suspected communicable disease and or rash of unknown origin.
Suspected fracture or any severe or disabling injury.
Vomiting or diarrhea within the last 24 hours.
Questionable need for sutures.
Head injury requiring a physician evaluation.
Immunization delinquencies without exemption documentation.
Please notify the health office if your child contracts any of the following: chicken pox, conjunctivitis, Covid-19, Fifth Disease, influenza, impetigo, measles, mononucleosis, mumps, scabies, strep throat, whooping cough, head lice.
Post-contagious illness School Attendance Guidelines
For all illnesses: Children must be fever free without medication for 24 hours before returning to school with an improvement in symptoms, and feeling well enough to return and participate.
Contagious Illness: According to school policy, if a child is being treated for a contagious illness or condition such as Strep throat, conjunctivitis or impetigo, the child must complete a full 24 hours of antibiotics before returning to school, and feel well enough to return to school and participate.
Strep throat: Requires students to remain home for 24 hours after initiation of antibiotics.
GI Illness: Requires students to remain home for 24 hours after the last episode of vomiting and or diarrhea.
In the case of chickenpox, all lesions must be scabbed over (5-7 days) before the child may return to school.
MA Department of Public Health - Respiratory Illness Guidance - updated 2026
Return to school after hospitalization, injury, mental health crisis, or other non-contagious illness
Return based on medical evaluation and plan created by the provider, as appropriate. Please communicate with your School Nurse regarding return to school and any accommodations/restrictions that need to be followed.