June 7, 2016
Contact: Jill Drury, Communication Specialist
jedrury@dps.k12.oh.us
For Immediate Release

                                            Students in grades 7 and 12 must have shots before August 16                                
Ohio Law and the Ohio Department of Health require certain immunizations for all incoming seventh and 12th-grade students. Incoming seventh-graders must receive a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough booster) and a meningitis immunization. Students entering twelfth grade must have a meningitis immunization after their 16th birthday.
Parents are required to provide the school with written proof of the Tdap and meningitis vaccinations from a doctor or clinic. The shots are required to be administered before the first day of school on August 16. Without the required shots, students will be excluded from the first day of class.

Read Now: 2016 Immunization summary for School Attendence

Parents may choose to have their children vaccinated through their primary care doctor, or by
Public Health — Dayton & Montgomery County, which is open daily in the Reibold Building, 117 South Main St., for your convenience.  Appointments fill up quickly; families are urged to make an appointment before July 15.
For more information, contact Virginia Noe, director of health services for Dayton Public Schools, at 542-3346.

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