Immunization Information

The Immunization Requirements for School Entry (PDF) | (DOCX) resource (updated April 16, 2025) outlines the required vaccines by child care/preschool, grades K-6, grades 7-12, and college. While MDPH outlines the required vaccines, local school districts are responsible for ensuring compliance to the stated requirements. Programs licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care (ECC) must comply with EEC regulations regarding child and staff immunizations. The School Immunization Requirements document is also available in Spanish (Requisitos de vacunación para la entrada escolar (PDF) l (DOC) (Spanish version), Brazilian Portuguese (Requisitos de imunização escolar de Massachusetts para) (PDF) l (DOC) (Brazilian Portuguese version), and Haitian Creole (Egzijans vaksen pou antre nan lekòl) (PDF) l (DOC) (Haitian Creole version).

The Wachusett Regional School District is required, pursuant to MGL c.76, § 15 and its
associated regulations, 105 CMR 220.000, to keep an immunization record on file for each
student enrolled in the school or system. The record must contain, at a minimum, the month and
year of each immunization, and be signed by the healthcare provider. Immunization histories
must be up to date for each child according to Immunization Guidelines published by the
Commonwealth - Massachusetts School Immunization Information. Parents/guardians shall
provide required documentation to the School Health Office.

Wachusett Regional School District - Policy 6611 - Student Immunizations

105 CMR 220.000 applies to all students attending public or private elementary schools, secondary schools, postsecondary institutions of higher education, and certain pre-schools in the Commonwealth, including students from other states and countries.

The regulation pertaining to school immunization is 105 CMR 220.000 - Immunization of Students Before Admission to School.

  Unimmunized or partially immunized homeless children and children in foster care cannot be denied entry to public schools if they do not have immunization records. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (which makes the McKinney-Vento Act more comprehensive) states that if a homeless or foster care child or youth arrives lacking immunizations or medical records, the parent/guardian should be referred to the district's Homeless Education Liaison/foster care point of contact, who has the responsibility to obtain relevant academic records and immunizations or medical records and to ensure that homeless/foster care students are attending school while the records are obtained. The student must be enrolled and permitted to attend public school in the interim. For questions about the Every Student Succeeds Act, please contact the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), at (781) 338-3700 or compliance@doe.mass.edu.

Students in kindergarten through 12th grade are required to be immunized with DTaP/Tdap, polio, MMR, Hepatitis B, and Varicella vaccines.

School immunization rates provide insight into the vaccine coverage in communities across the state. Since immunization rates are not uniform across the state, school immunization data highlight areas that may be more susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases. These data also show the importance of maintaining high immunization rates.

Massachusetts School Immunization Data