Student Health Forms

Medication Policy - POLÍTICA DE MEDICAMENTOS (at school and on school-related trips)

Allergy & Anaphylaxis Emergency Care

Asthma Care Plan

Vaccinations Colorado law (SB20-163, enacted June 2020) requires all students attending Colorado schools and licensed child cares to be vaccinated against certain diseases unless they have a certificate of medical or nonmedical exemption on file. You must file a certificate of exemption at each school, or child care the student attends. To protect unvaccinated children, students with an exemption from one or more required vaccines may be kept out of a school or child care during a disease outbreak.

Medical Exemptions Medical exemptions need to be filed only once unless the student’s information or school changes.

Nonmedical Exemptions Parents of students in grades K-12 claiming a nonmedical exemption must submit one annually. Nonmedical exemptions expire June 30th each year.

COVID

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) emphasizes the “routine disease control model” for addressing the impact of COVID in schools. This focuses more on response to clusters of cases, outbreaks, and evidence of ongoing transmission in schools and less on individual case investigation, contact tracing, and quarantining of staff and students following school exposures. A routine disease control model for COVID closely aligns with public health response strategies used for other infectious diseases (influenza, norovirus, strep, etc.) in schools.

Please consult your Local Public Health Agency for additional guidance and local health requirements.

COVID-19 Disease Control Strategies:

  • Staying home when sick
  • Testing when symptomatic
  • Monitoring for increases in illness and absenteeism
  • Working with/ local public health

Routine disease control strategies:

  • Emphasize to the school community that they should stay home when sick, using Colorado’s "How Sick Is Too Sick" guidance.
  • Continue to encourage vaccination of staff and students.
  • Follow isolation requirements for ill students and staff who have tested positive for COVID-19.
  • Continue recommending transmission prevention strategies, including testing and masking for staff and students following illness and exposure.
  • Continue to support regular mask use by staff and students, even when not required by local public health orders. CDC recommends universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status and at all transmission levels.
  • Respond to clusters of cases (including increases in respiratory illness) and confirmed outbreaks as described below.
  • Continue to report identified cases and outbreaks to public health as required by Colorado Statute and Regulation (6 CCR 1009-1).
  • Instead of individual case investigation and contact tracing, new cluster or outbreak detection strategies should be implemented, including public health reporting of school absenteeism data and participation in wastewater surveillance. CDPHE is exploring funding mechanisms to support this work.

Strategies not continued in the routine disease control model (unless a cluster or outbreak is detected):

  • Individual case investigation and contact tracing.
  • Quarantine of students and staff with school-associated exposures.* Given the much greater risk of household exposures than non-household exposures, schools should continue to follow quarantine guidance for students and staff who report household exposures.