Health Services

What To Do When Your Student Isn't Feeling Well
In an effort to help protect well children from unnecessary exposure to contagious or infectious diseases, South Carolina requires that children and staff with certain diseases and conditions stay home from school while contagious. If you think that your child has an illness that can be spread to others, please keep him or her home from school and call your healthcare provider.

Questions to Consider When Your Child is Sick:

Does your child's illness keep him/her from comfortably taking part in activities?

Does your sick child need more care than the staff can give without affecting the health and safety of other children?

Could other children get sick from being near your child?

If the answer to any of these questions is "Yes," please keep your child out of school.

We ask that you screen your child each day prior to coming to school for signs and symptoms of illness. If your child is not feeling well prior to school, please do not give them medication and send them to school. Keep them at home and contact your school nurse or health care provider for guidance.

Staying Home from School or Childcare When Your Child is Sick
- Su hijo no debe asistir a la escuela o al centro de cuidado infantil cuando está enfermo

COVID-19, Flu, Respiratory Virus

Lexington District Three students and staff continue to learn, work and live with COVID-19 with minimal disruptions. Our schools are operating normally, and DHEC no longer requires 5 day isolation periods or quarantining for close contacts.

Please remember that children diagnosed with COVID-19 , flu or respiratory viruses should stay home until they have had no fever for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication AND have significant improvement of symptoms.

DHEC guidance also encourages added precautions in the five days following returning to school. These include cleaner air, enhanced hygiene practices, wearing a well-fitting mask, keeping a distance from others, and following up with your health care provider.

Medication Administration Policy
When possible, medications should be given to students before or after school by the parent or guardian. Medication must be provided to the school by the parent or guardian in the original container with proper labeling. No medications should be sent with children on the bus. Prescription medications will only be administered within the limits of the prescribing healthcare provider's written and signed order (click below).

Medication Administration Permission Form(English Version)
Medication Administration Form (Spanish Version)

Vaccine and Immunization Requirements
In order to protect all children from vaccine-preventable diseases, South Carolina Law (Section 44-29-180) does NOT permit schools to allow students to remain in attendance without proper documentation of immunization status. If you have any questions about your child’s immunization documentation, please contact the school nurse.

Childcare and School Vaccine Requirements

South Carolina Life Saving Medication in School Act
Pursuant to Section 59-63-95, a recent Amendment to the South Carolina Code of Laws, Lexington School District Three observes the Life Saving Medication in Schools Act. This law allows our district to "stock" Epinephrine Auto-Injectors for use in cases of unidentified severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) or if an Epinephrine Auto-Injector malfunction. If a child has a known or medically diagnosed severe allergy, it is still the responsibility of the parent/guardian to provide the prescribed emergency medication.

This law also allows our district to “stock” Naloxone (Narcan) Intranasal Injectors for use in cases of suspected opioid overdose.

Health Resources

Parent & Student Health Information Sheets
- Hojas de información para padres y estudiantes

School Exclusion List