Is head lice going around Evanston, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed head lice activity has been reported at Evanston, 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 Evanston 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 Evanston 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 Evanston
Evanston schools and daycares we watch for head lice
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment head lice is logged there.
- A Step By Step
- Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center
- Willard Elementary School
- Dawes Elementary School
- Dewey Elementary School
- Lincolnwood Elementary School
- Oakton Elementary School
- Orrington Elementary School
- Lincoln Elementary School
- Kingsley Elementary School
- Washington Elementary School
- Evanston Township High School
- Haven Middle School
- Chute Middle School
- Nichols Middle School
- Chiaravalle Montessori School
- Guidepost Montessori
- Toddler Town Day Care
- Unity Preschool
- Barbereaux School
- Bright Horizons
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Laboratory School
- One River School of Art and Design
- Pope John XXIII School
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