Clinic

If your student is absent due to illness, please call the attendance line at (513) 777-0552, option 1, and leave a detailed message or email ContactRidge@lakotaonline.com. Please include your student’s first and last name (please spell), grade, parent/guardian name and relationship, phone number where parent/guardian may be reached, and reason for the absence. If your student is absent due to illness, please include in your message the symptoms that your student is experiencing. 

When returning to school after illness, students should bring a note from the doctor to the clinic.

If your student becomes ill during the school day, he or she is expected to report to the health clinic for assessment. If it is determined that your student should leave school due to illness, the nurse or designated staff member will contact a parent or guardian for pickup. It is the expectation that students leaving school due to illness are to be dismissed from the clinic.

Students should not be contacting a parent to pick them up during school hours without reporting to the clinic. 

Seventh-grade students are required to submit their immunization records before school begins each fall. Here is what you need to know! 

Students are not permitted to possess any form of medication, prescription or over-the-counter, while at school.

If you medicine that needs to be administered to your student during school hours, you will need to submit a school medication permit, completed and signed by a parent/guardian and the student’s health care provider, to the clinic. 

Medication should be delivered to the school, along with the completed school medication permit, by a parent/guardian between 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Please allow ample time for the nurse to review the medication order and count the medication being delivered. It is not permissible to send medication to school with your student.

It is important to note that medications cannot be kept over the summer for the following school year. Any medication left at the end of the current school year must be picked up by a parent/guardian by the end of the last day of school, or it will be destroyed.