Is head lice going around Elgin, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed head lice activity has been reported at Elgin, Illinois schools and daycares in the past 14 days. That can mean it is quiet, or simply that nobody nearby has logged it yet.
How Elgin parents can tell
- Persistent scalp itching
- Tickling feeling in the hair
- Tiny white eggs near the scalp
- Red bumps on the neck or behind the ears
Lice do not jump or fly. They pass through head-to-head contact and shared hats or brushes.
Everything on this page comes from Elgin parents logging what their kids actually had, stripped of anything identifying. Nothing shows up until at least two families report the same thing, so one sick child never puts a school on the map.
Read the full head lice guideOther illnesses in Elgin
Elgin schools and daycares we watch for head lice
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment head lice is logged there.
- The Goddard School
- Saint Thomas More School
- Central SWEP
- DREAM Academy
- Elgin Academy
- Prairie View Grade School
- The Learning Tree Childcare
- Abbott Middle School
- Larsen Middle School
- Larkin High School
- Channing Memorial Elementary School
- Prairie Knolls Middle School
- Creekside Elementary School
- Elgin High School
- Gifford Elementary School
- Highland Elementary School
- Hillcrest Elementary School
- Kimball Middle School
- Otter Creek Elementary School
- Ronald D. O'Neal Elementary School
- Washington Elementary School
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