Students are heading back to class, but before they do, schools are making sure they're prepared for the H1N1 virus.

Oklahoma City's superintendent announced today the flu vaccine will be available at the schools, and that's just the first of many steps in protecting your kids.

"I'm not worried," said Debbie Johnson, Oklahoma City Public Schools Administrator of Health. "We're going to handle it."

With plenty of hand-washing and sanitizing, students from Oklahoma City Public Schools should be less-likely to get the H1N1 flu.  The school district said they'll handle it with the help of a vaccine.

"We will be carrying the seasonal influenza vaccines in our school clinics.  There will also be a rollout of the H1N1 flu vaccine when it is available to our schools," said Johnson.

The first step in their 4-level plan is prevention.   They make sure parents are well aware of their children's health.

"It's just a matter of wanting right now of having to talk to our parents and really have them pay attention to their children," said Karl Springer, Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent.

"One of the major target groups is our children so we want to make sure that we are reactive to our kids to keeping them safe as well as our staff," said Johnson.

All of the district's elementary school classrooms come with hand sanitizers.

"At this time, we're working on placing sanitizers in all of our middle school and high school classrooms," said Johnson.

The second level includes the possible shutting down of a school if it receives a high percentage of students with the flu.  If there's a greater outbreak in several schools, officials would go to level 3, which would shut down a community of schools.   If the outbreak reaches level 4, officials would implement a partial district closing.

"We would always stay open.  As a school district, we would not shut the whole school district down," said Springer.  "We feel confident that we're going to be fine."

Although it's not required for students to get vaccinated with the H1N1 flu vaccine, it's highly recommended.  School officials stress that parents must give their students permission before getting vaccinated.

School officials expect to get the H1N1 flu vaccine in October.