Education

To be eligible to enter Kindergarten a child shall be 5 years of age on or before September 30th of the entering year. The school must be provided with a copy of the child's birth certificate, a record of completed immunizations or a medically verified plan for completion, or a medical or religious exemption, and record of a physical exam by a medical doctor.

According to RSA 22-38, the minimum requirements for children entering school are the following:

• 4 Doses DPT or TD

• 4 Doses Polio

• 1 Dose Measles (administered after 12 months and with live vaccine.)

• 1 Dose Mumps

• 1 Dose Rubella

• Hepatitis B Vaccine (if born after January 1, 1993)

Children not in compliance with these requirements must be excluded from school, unless documentation of medical or religious exemption is provided.