Is head lice going around Hammond, Indiana?
Not right now. No confirmed head lice activity has been reported at Hammond, Indiana schools and daycares in the past 14 days. That can mean it is quiet, or simply that nobody nearby has logged it yet.
How Hammond 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 Hammond 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 Hammond
Hammond schools and daycares we watch for head lice
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment head lice is logged there.
- Thomas A. Edison Elementary School
- Morton Elementary School
- Annie Burns-Hicks Elementary School
- Columbia Elementary School
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
- Lafayette Elementary School
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
- Henry W. Eggers Elementary - Middle School
- Frank O'Bannon Elementary School
- Hess Elementary School
- Kenwood Elementary School
- Washington Irving Elementary School
- Wallace Elementary School
- Warren G. Harding Elementary School
- Hammond Central High School
- Morton Senior High School
- City Baptist High School
- Scott Middle School
- Montessori Children's Schoolhouse
- Hammond Career Center
- Bishop Noll Institute
- Hammond Academy of Science & Technolgy
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