requires that all students be fully immunized
before they can enter school.
STATE MANDATED IMMUNIZATIONS
For original entry to Kindergarten
or First Grade:
- DT or DPT - 4 doses minimum, with 1 dose being given on or after the 4th birthday.
- POLIO - 3 Doses
- MMR - 2 doses with 1st dose being given after the 1st birthday.
- HEPATITIS B - 3 appropriately spaced doses.
Beginning in the 2002-2003 school
year, school vaccination requirements have changed to include:
- VARICELLA IMMUNITY - either from vaccination, history of disease or lab testing, for new school entrees ( Kdg. or 1st grade) and also for students entering 7th grade.
- HEPATITIS B - 3 doses for students entering 7th grade.
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