Student Symptom Checker

Parents: Please complete this short checklist each morning before sending your child to school.

Is anyone in your household awaiting results of a COVID test?

SECTION 1: Check your child for these symptoms. If the answer to any of these is “Yes”, that indicates a possible illness that may decrease the student’s ability to learn and also put them at risk for spreading illness to others.

Temperature 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher

New onset sore throat that cannot be attributed to another health condition

New loss of taste or smell

New uncontrolled cough and/or difficulty breathing (for students with chronic allergic / asthmatic cough, a change in their cough from baseline)

New onset of moderate or severe headache

New onset diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain

SECTION 2: Close Contact / Potential Exposure

Has your child had close contact (within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes) with a person with confirmed COVID-19?

Has your child recently traveled outside of Virginia, and do you currently have any one symptom in Section 1 above?

Has anyone in your household recently (within the last 5 days) tested positive for COVID-19?

If the answers for your student are YES to any question in section 1 but NO to any question in Section 2, the student must stay home as per existing school health policy (e.g. until symptom-free for 24 hours without fever reducing medications).

If the answers for your student are YES to any question in Section 1 and YES to any question in Section 2, the student must stay home and should be evaluated by a health care provider. Your doctor will advise you about quarantine or isolation if it is deemed necessary.