Is head lice going around Joliet, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed head lice activity has been reported at Joliet, 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 Joliet 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 Joliet 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 Joliet
Joliet schools and daycares we watch for head lice
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment head lice is logged there.
- Thompson Instructional Center
- Marycrest Early Childhood Center
- Grand Prairie Elementary School
- Woodland Elementary School
- Joliet Township High School Pathways Campus
- Eisenhower Academy
- Forest Park Individual Education School
- Joliet Catholic Academy
- Joliet Junior College Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center
- Lincoln School
- Joliet Central High School
- Joliet West High School
- Carl Sandburg Elementary School
- M. J. Cunningham Elementary School
- A.O. Marshall Elementary School
- Dirksen Junior High School
- Pershing Elementary School
- Gompers Junior High School
- Isaac Singleton Elementary School
- Crystal Lawns Elementary School
- Edna Keith Elementary School
- Farragut Elementary School
- Hufford Junior High School
- Laraway Elementary School
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