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The Florida Department of Health works to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, and community efforts.
School Health
Baker County Health Department
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Fax
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Mailing Address
480 West Lowder Street
Macclenny Florida 32063
The mission of Florida’s School Health Services program is to appraise, protect, and promote the health of students. Preventive and emergency school-based services are provided to public and private school children in grades kindergarten through twelve.
School nurses enhance health within the school and community by providing health appraisals, nursing assessments, immunizations, nutrition assessments, preventive dental services, periodic health screenings, health counseling, referral and follow-up of suspected or confirmed health problems, emergency health services, and promoting activities to reduce risk-taking behaviors.
Every year, School Health conducts Student Health Screenings where they look at vision, hearing, scoliosis, and BMI (Body Mass Index). We are improving the health of our students and we use BMI’s to measure our success. BMI screenings are conducted in the first, third, and sixth grade. Each student is categorized by their age and they fall into percentages.
2013-2014
School | Underweight | Normal | Overweight | Obese | Total |
Key | <5% | 5%-85% | 85%-95% | >95% |
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MES-1st grade | 4.10% | 67.27% | 10.45% | 18.18% | 220 |
WES-1st grade | 7.28% | 64.08% | 14.56% | 14.08% | 206 |
MES-3rd grade | 1.52% | 59.10% | 16.16% | 23.23% | 198 |
WES-3rd Grade | 8.42% | 62.87% | 10.89% | 17.82% | 202 |
BCMS-6th grade | 10.36% | 75.39% | 0% | 14.25% | 386 |
2012-2013
School | Underweight | Normal | Overweight | Obese | Total |
Key | <5% | 5%-85% | 85%-95% | >95% |
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MES-1st grade | 2.84% | 64.93% | 15.64% | 16.59% | 211 |
WES-1st grade | 5.10% | 66.33% | 3.78% | 14.80% | 196 |
MES-3rd grade | 1.51% | 58.79% | 15.64% | 18.59% | 199 |
WES-3rd Grade | 8.00% | 58.22% | 12.68% | 21.13% | 213 |
BCMS-6th grade | 5.47% | 54.48% | 16% | 23.63% | 402 |
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