School Lice Policies

Current recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of School Nurses encourage schools to become more lenient regarding allowing children with “nits only” to remain in school.

Santa Barbara Unified School District Santa Barbara schools maintain the same lice policy as Oxnard schools, which allows students with active lice to remain in school until the end of the day and then then child must go home to be treated.

According to the Department of State Health Services of Texas, there is no law in Texas that addresses excluding children with head lice from school.