Wisconsin immunization records and school rules
The short answer for Wisconsin
- Required for school
- Kindergarten to 6th grade: polio, MMR, DTaP/DTP/DT/Td, hepatitis B, varicella. Source · Official page
- If your child is behind on shots
- DHS counts a student as “in process” if the dates for the first doses are given within 30 school days of admission; for second doses the limit is 90 school days. Source
- Get the record
- Parents and guardians can look up their children's records in the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR) public portal. Source · Official page
Checked 11 Nov 2026 against the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) pages. The federal schedule is in court: see what cdc.gov shows today and what changed.
Wisconsin runs a public online registry for parents. This page adds the school-entry list, the in-process and exclusion timing, the waiver types and what changed for school entry.
Run by Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). Registry: Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR). All facts on this page were checked on or after 11 Nov 2026.
Which schedule the state follows
- Wisconsin (DHS) continues to recommend the AAP childhood scheduleSource: dhs.wisconsin.gov
For how the AAP and CDC schedules differ, see the comparison.
From the record to the school
Get your child’s record
- Who and what ID Wisconsin WIR search needs the person's names, date of birth, and a Social Security, Medicaid or health plan ID number
- What you get A WIR search shows the vaccine record and lists the vaccines the person should receive; the printed record can be given as proof for child care, summer camp, school, university or work
Sources: dhs.wisconsin.gov
School and child care rules
- Grace period A student can be counted “in process” if the dates for the first doses of the required vaccines are provided within 30 school days of admission; “in process” also applies to the second doses within 90 school days of admission, and a student cannot be “in process” if the missing vaccine is a single-dose requirement such as Tdap[S1]
- Good to know Students have until the 30th school day to provide immunization documentation or a signed waiver; from the 31st school day, noncompliant students in kindergarten through grade 5 must be excluded for up to 10 consecutive school days if the school (or, for a public school, its district) was below 99.00% compliance the previous school year; exclusion is optional for grades 6 through 12[S1]
- Recent change School-age requirements changed at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year: a MenACWY vaccine for 7th grade entry and a booster for eligible students entering 12th grade were added, and a parent's report of chickenpox stopped being accepted as the exemption from the varicella requirement[S2]
- Good to know A parent's report of chickenpox is no longer accepted as new proof for the varicella requirement; a diagnosis by a qualified provider is needed[S2]
Sources: S1. dhs.wisconsin.gov/p01438, S2. dhs.wisconsin.gov/reqs
Exemptions
- Law: students show proof of the required vaccines or provide a waiver signed by a parent or guardian[S1]
- Wisconsin names health, religious and personal conviction waivers[S2]
Sources: S1. dhs.wisconsin.gov/reqs, S2. dhs.wisconsin.gov/p03803
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