The State of Indiana requires that all public school students receive specific immunizations before starting school. The type of immunizations vary depending on the age of the child.
Below is a list of required immunizations, based on grade level, as well as recommended immunizations that should be considered:
Pre-Kindergarten
Required:
3 Hepatitis B
4 DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetnus and Pertussis
3 Polio
1 Varicella (Chickenpox)
1 MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)
2 Hepatitis A
Recommended:
Annual Influenza
COVID vaccine
Haemophilus influenza type B
Pneumococcal conjugate
K-5th Grade
Required:
3 Hepatitis B
5 DTaP
4 Polio
2 Varicella
2 MMR
2 Hepatitis A
Recommended:
Annual influenza
COVID
6th-11th Grade
Required:
2 Hepatitis B
5 DTaP
4 Polio
2 Varicella
2 MMR
2 Hepatitis A
1MCV4 (Meningococcal)
1Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis
Recommended:
Annual influenza
2/3 HPV (Human papillomarviris)
COVID
12th Grade
Required:
3 Hepatitis B
5DTaP
4 Polio
2 Varicella
2 MMR
2 Hepatitis A
2 MCV4
1Tdap
Recommended:
Annual influenza
2/3 HPV
2 MenB (Meningococcal)
COVID
Additional Information:
HepB: The minimum age for the 3rd dose of
Hepatitis B is 24 weeks of age.
DTaP: 4 doses of DTaP/DTP/DT are acceptable if
4th dose was administered on or after child’s 4th
birthday.
Polio*: 3 doses of Polio are acceptable for all
grade levels if the 3rd dose was given on or after
the 4th birthday and at least 6 months after the
previous dose.
*For students in grades K-12, the final dose must
be administered on or after the 4th birthday and
be administered at least 6 months after the
previous dose.
Varicella: Physician documentation of disease
history, including month and year, is proof of
immunity for children entering preschool through
12th grade. Parent report of disease history is not
acceptable.
Tdap: There is no minimum interval from the last
Td dose.
MCV4: Individuals who receive dose 1 on or after
the 16th birthday only need 1 dose of MCV4.
Hepatitis A: The minimum interval between 1 st
and 2nd dose is 6 calendar months. 2 doses are
required for all grades Pre-K through 12.
COVID-19: COVID-19 vaccine is recommended
for all students five years of age and older per
CDC and FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization.
Being able to offer free breakfast and lunch to every student at Salem Community Schools is important to SCS Food Director Karen Libka. When she recently got word thatit was going to happen next school year, she was thrilled!
This past school year, breakfast and lunch was free at Bradie Shrum Elementary and Salem Middle School.
“In the past, the high school didn't qualify for the CEP program because their direct certification percentage wasn't high enough,” she said. “This percentage is based on students who have at least one person in their household that receives benefits from SNAP, TANF or Medicaid Free.”
She said there are other qualifications, too, such as a homeless student, foster student, or migrant worker.
“To qualify to participate in the CEP program, at least 40% of your students had to be directly certified,” she said. “So students that fill out an application and qualify for free meals that way don't count in this percentage. And no student that qualifies for reduced meals, either through direct certification or an application count in the percentage necessary, do either.”
Libka said congress did change this requirement about a year ago to 25% and said some states are providing funding by making up the difference. In other places funding is coming from large organizations that have money and want to support the local schools making sure every child can eat for free.
“Otherwise schools have to make up the difference and this money has to come from the school corporation budget,” she said. “It cannot come from the USDA school nutrition fund. Again, most schools cannot afford that.”
Libka explained that the high school still has a low direct cert percentage and is currently only a little over 41% and if it was the only school that qualified SCS couldn't afford to do it.
“But the direct cert percentage continues to rise a little at BSE and the SMS percentage jumped up about 3% this year,” she said. “This helps offset the numbers at the high school. None of the schools are fully funded, but we watch our spending, we have great procurement and are always looking for ways to save and a committed staff working hard to make this happen for our students. So we decided to give it a try at the high school this next year.”
Libka said offering the free meals is important to her because it is difficult for hungry students to learn, grow and mature.
“Study after study shows that students that start with school breakfast in the morning have higher test scores, less behavior problems, lower absenteeism and overall better health,” she said. “School lunch helps get them through the rest of the day. When we had free meals during Covid because of the national waiver, I saw first hand what a difference providing free meals made for our students. And it was one less stress for their families as well. For so many of our students school meals are the most nutritious meals our students receive and for some, the only meals they receive.”
Libka said that on average, the cafeteria serves between 575-600 breakfasts a day at all three schools.
With the new school year, she said they are looking forward to going back to free meals for all students like it was during Covid.
“This is a big cost savings for our families and less worry about needing lunch money for both the parents/guardians and the student,” she said.
When discussing menus for the upcoming year, Libka said they are always looking at new things for the school menus.
“We go to food shows, talk to other schools in our co-op (the school nutrition program belongs to a cooperative with several other schools to do some procurement together, share ideas, problem solve, share recipes, etc,), we look at trade magazines and articles, belong to the both the State and National School Nutrition Association, attend conferences and workshops, etc. looking for new ideas,” she said. “In addition we talk to students themselves and ask what they like, don't like, what they want. If we can afford it and can make it fit into the USDA guidelines, we try to make it happen.”
Libka said the school nutrition staff is required to have a certain amount of professional development training hours each year depending on their position. She said the staff has made a tremendous effort in going above and beyond in completing professional development this year.
“Most of the staff have tripled the amount of hours that is required and several staff members have gone beyond that,” she said. “We have several staff members attending workshops and conferences this summer as well. The school nutrition staff is working hard to learn and grow and be the best they can be. Honestly, I am so proud of them!”
Governor Eric J. Holcomb and the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ISBVI) today announced James R. Michaels will serve as the next superintendent. The school’s current superintendent, James Durst, announced his retirement earlier this year. Michaels will enter the role with over 35 years of serving Hoosier youth and adults with disabilities.
“James Michaels has spent his life in service to Hoosiers with disabilities,” said Gov. Holcomb. “I know James will bring that dedication along with his decades of experience providing and leading human services to the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired."
Michaels is an alumnus, former employee and former board member of ISBVI. Since 1998, Michaels has served in education, counseling and leadership positions, including VP of Programs, at Bosma Enterprises, an Indianapolis nonprofit providing employment, rehabilitation and job training for people who are blind or visually impaired. Earlier in his career, Michaels held multiple student-serving roles at the Indiana School for the Deaf.
“I am so grateful to have the opportunity to return to the school that made such a difference in my life. As a former student and employee of the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, I have witnessed first-hand the life changing impact the school has on the students, parents, staff, and the community at-large,” said Michaels. “I am excited to have the opportunity to work side by side with the amazing ISBVI staff to continue to support, encourage, and educate the student-body. The message the students will hear from me over and over again is, ‘I believe in you.’”
Michaels completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Indiana University. He resides in Brownsburg with his wife, Connie; they have a son, Jesse, currently attending college.
As one of the largest state schools in the nation serving students who are blind or have low vision, IBSVI enrolls 110 students spanning preschool through high school, approximately 40 of whom are residential, as well as directly serving over 300 students across 46 school districts. Established in 1847, the school also offers a wide array of other programming aligned to its statutory mission of serving Hoosier students with visual disabilities.
For the second year in a row, Salem Community Schools was awarded the STEM Integration grant. Totalling $44,582, STEAM Director Jessica Morgan is thrilled to have received the grant again.
“This year, the focus will be on computer science,” she said. “We will have training for 10 teachers to learn how to integrate computer science into core classes.”
Morgan has started using the funds already to purchase more supplies for the lab including robots and micro:bits that can be used at all three school buildings. She said a new 3D printer has been bought for Bradie Shrum and computer science building and design kits have been purchased for 6th and 7th grades, which will include coding.
“All of this falls in line with the conference that I went to this summer, along with Crystal Mikels and Casey Fields,” said Morgan. “We went to Computer Science Professional Development (CSPD) week in Bloomington in June. This grant will help us incorporate a lot of what we learned at the training into our classrooms.”
Some examples of ways computer science will be included in the classroom are for math class: using micro:bits to put on shoes and count steps, using different speeds and then taking the information and creating graphs.
In history class, students can make games by taking famous people in history and making informational links about the person for people to click on and learn more about them in presentations.
Morgan is looking forward to school starting and sharing these ideas with teachers to make learning more hands-on and fun for students at Salem schools.
“This grant will help us integrate technology into the classroom even more than we have already,” she said. “It’s going to be a great school year.”
The Salem School Board approved earlier dismissal times for the 2024-25 school year. Superintendent Jill Mires explained that she, Transportation Director Ed Jordan and the school principals all worked together to make a plan for how to get the buses back to the bus compound earlier in the evenings because it starts to get dark early from about the end of October through the winter months.
Dismissal will start at Bradie Shrum Elementary School at 2:45 p.m., with late load buses being in the front of the fleet and loading beginning at 2:50 p.m. At the middle school, walkers and car riders will be held to let bus riders load first. Classes will end around 2:50 p.m. with buses being loaded from 2:57 - 3:00 p.m. The high school will hold student drivers until bus riders are loaded, dismissing at 3:00 p.m. with loading from 3:01 - 3:05 p.m.
Mires said early dismissal will also provide built-in PD time for teachers, as they will still be in the buildings until 3:30 p.m. She said all teachers will participate in the extra time after students have been released. Mires said this also allows the school to be more in line with the Prosser schedule. After school activities will also be able to begin earlier.
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