2025 Delaware Code
Title 14 - Education
Chapter 41. REGULATORY PROVISIONS
Subchapter I. General Regulatory Provisions
§ 4149. Vision screening.

(a) For purposes of this section, “vision screening” means a screening performed by the school nurse or other qualified healthcare professional in accordance with the Delaware School Nurse Manual. “Vision screening” includes a test for color blindness.

(b) Each school district and charter school must provide a vision screening to each student enrolled in kindergarten. Students in subsequent grade levels shall receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals to be determined by the Department. All new students to a district or charter school must receive a vision screening in a nontesting year if there is no record of a vision screening in the student's electronic health record.

(c) The school shall record the results of the vision screening within the student's electronic health record.

(d) If a student fails a vision screening, the school must notify the student's parent, guardian, or relative caregiver.