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School Health Entrance Requirements for Students

Immunizations—Every child should have a current and valid immunization certificate on file with all vaccines that were received since birth. This is due within 2 weeks of your child's first day of attendance.

Medical Examinations—Students attending a Kentucky school for the first time should have an appropriate Kentucky Preventative Health Care Examination form on file at school within two months after the first day of attendance. This form must be submitted as proof of an examination that has been given no earlier than one year prior to or 60 days after the first day of attendance.

Vision Examinations—Students entering school for the first time, ages 3, 4, 5, or 6 years old only, should have a Kentucky Vision Examination form on file at school no later than January 1 of the first year that the child is enrolled. An Optometrist or an Ophthalmologist must complete the examination.

Dental Examinations—Students entering kindergarten or grade 1 for the first time, ages 5 or 6 years old, should have a Kentucky Dentalform on file no later that January 1 of the first year that the child is enrolled.