What does school require?

In DC, every student must stay up to date on required vaccines, at any type of school: public, charter or private.

Deadline: students entering Pre-K3, kindergarten, 7th and 11th grade must be fully vaccinated by December 7, 2026.

One rulebook for every DC school

DC public schools, charter schools and private schools all follow the same DC Health vaccine rules. No school has its own different rules.

Shots DC requires

Before Pre-K3 and kindergarten: DTaP, polio, MMR, hepatitis B, chickenpox (varicella), Hib, pneumococcal and hepatitis A.
Before 7th grade: Tdap, meningococcal and HPV.
Before 11th grade: a meningococcal booster.

The exact number of doses is on the official list below.

Find your DCPS school's health information

Choose a school to open its official school health profile. These reports are not live nurse contact pages. For the current nurse or health office, call the school's front office.

Search school names

112 schools

Official DCPS health profiles

Find your school's health office

DC does not post a health office page for each school. Use these official pages, then call your school's front office to reach the nurse.

Your child's grade

See the official list of vaccines and doses for each grade