Required Immunizations

Parents are requested to cooperate with the school nurse in completing the legal requirements for immunizations (below). Exemptions from immunization allowed by the law will be honored. However, NYS now requires that a Medical Immunization Exemption Statement, completed by the child's physician, is submitted annually. Parents are reminded that the law requires that students not meeting all requirements may be excluded from school.

 

 NYS IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS
(Call your child's physician with any questions)
Vaccines Kindergarten and Grades 1-5
  Grades 6-11  Grade 12

Diphtheria and Tetanus toxoid-containing vaccine and Pertussis vaccine (DTaP/DTP/Tdap)

 

5 doses or 4 doses
If the 4th dose was received at 4 years or older or

3 doses
if 7 years or older and the series was started at 1 year or older.

  3 doses  3 doses

Tetanus and Diphtheria toxoid-containing vaccine and Pertussis vaccine booster (Tdap)

 

  Not applicable  1 dose     1 dose
 Polio vaccine (IPV/OPV)     4 doses or 3 doses
If the 3rd dose was received at 4 years or older.		 4 doses or 3 doses
If the 3rd dose was received at 4 years or older.		 4 doses or 3 doses
If the 3rd dose was received at 4 years or older.

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine (MMR)

  2 doses  2 doses  2 doses

Hepatitis B vaccine

 

 3 doses or 2 doses of adult hepatitis B vaccine (Recombivax) for children who received the doses at least 4 months apart between the ages of 11 through 15 years. 3 doses or 2 doses of adult hepatitis B vaccine (Recombivax) for children who received the doses at least 4 months apart between the ages of 11 through 15 years. 3 doses or 2 doses of adult hepatitis B vaccine (Recombivax) for children who received the doses at least 4 months apart between the ages of 11 through 15 years.

Varicella (chickenpox) vaccine

 

  2 doses  2 doses  2 doses

Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY)

 N/A 1 dose required by Grades 7-10

2 doses or 1 dose if the dose was received at 16 years or older.