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Communicable Diseases

The regulations on the duration of exclusion from school and criteria for readmission will be strictly enforced. No child, absent or excluded from class, with a communicable disease shall return to school before the specified time has expired.  This regulation includes but is not limited to the following diseases:

Chicken Pox - 5 days from the appearance of the first crop of vesicles, or when all the lesions are dried and crusted.

Conjunctivitis (pink eye) - 24 hours from the institution of appropriate therapy and when the eye no longer has a discharge.

Covid-19 Positive test- recommended to follow current PA Department Of Health (PADOH) guidelines for isolation prior to returning to school.

Covid- 19 Exposure- recommended to follow current PA Department Of Health (PADOH) guidelines for isolation prior to returning to school.

German Measles -  4 days from onset or when rash is gone; temperature is normal.

Head Lice - to be determined by examination by the school nurse.

Impetigo - 24 hours after starting appropriate antibiotic therapy.

Measles -  4 days from onset of rash.

Ringworm- under treatment with an antifungal and area can be covered.

Scabies - after completion of appropriate treatment.

Scarlet Fever - at least 10 days from the onset or 24 hours after starting appropriate antimicrobial therapy.

Whooping Cough (Pertussis)- 3 weeks from onset or 5 days after starting appropriate antimicrobial therapy.

Exclusion times may be extended at the discretion of the school nurse.

A doctor's release may be required before a child with a communicable disease returns to school.