Health & Wellness

Wellness Policy

Recognizing the link between student and staff wellness and learning, the San José Unified Board of Trustees adopted a district Wellness Policy in 2006 that is designed to “build, promote, and integrate a comprehensive school health system.”

Click here to read the San José Unified Wellness Policy

Illnesses

To protect the health and safety of our entire community, students should not attend school with any of the symptoms below. Students exhibiting these symptoms may be sent home.

• Cold symptoms - Keep student home during period of coughing with yellow or green discharge.
• Fever of 100 degrees or higher - Students who have been ill with a fever need to be fever-free, without the use of medication, for 24 hours before returning to school.
• Eyes that are red, swollen, crusting, or draining
• Untreated, draining ears or earache
• Diarrhea - Students must stay home for 48 hours after they no longer have symptoms.
• Severe nausea or vomiting - Students must stay home for 48 hours after they no longer have symptoms.
• Severe sore throat
• Untreated head lice and/or nits (eggs) in the hair

Immunizations

Students will not be able to attend class in San José Unified until all immunization requirements have been met and records have been received by the Enrollment Center or school office. Please click below to view the requirements and find a clinic near you where your student can receive their immunizations.

• Immunization requirements
• Immunization Clinics
• TB Risk Assessment for School Entry

Please call the Enrollment Center at (408) 535-6412 if you have any questions.

Personal Belief Exemptions

According to recent updates to state law, Personal Belief Exemptions (PBE) from immunizations are no longer accepted unless they were dated before January 1, 2016. For more information about the new law, please see the Frequently Asked Questions at ShotsForSchool.org.

Medical exemptions are still accepted from your student’s healthcare provider. Requests must list specific immunizations and explain why they would be harmful to the student’s health.

Tdap Requirements

All students entering or advancing or transferring into 7th grade need to submit proof of immunization with a whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine booster called “Tdap”. Students must receive a Tdap booster by the first day of school.

All students entering or transferring into grades 8-12 who have not met the TDAP booster (Tdap) requirement, will need to submit proof of a Tdap immunization.

Tdap Vaccine Information

Tuberculosis (TB) Requirements

The Santa Clara County Tuberculosis (TB) School Mandate has changed from a requirement for universal TB testing to a requirement for universal TB risk assessment. This requirement applies to all children enrolling or transferring at any grade level from outside of Santa Clara County.

Prior to enrollment, students are required to have their healthcare provider complete the Santa Clara County Public Health Department Risk Assessment for School Entry.

TB Risk Assessment for School Entry

Health Forms

School Medication Permission Form

Homeless Assistance

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Program is designed to address the problems that homeless children and youth have faced in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school. Under this program, state educational agencies (SEAs) must make sure that each homeless child and youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as other children and youth.

If you’d like to learn more about San José Unified’s McKinney-Vento program and the services we provide for families and students, please contact Program Coordinator Alejandro Herrera at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 408-535-6464.

For more information, you can read The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.

Contact

Health and Family Support Department
San José Unified School District
855 Lenzen Ave.
San José, CA 95126