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Schools in the Brooklyn Diocese, which includes elementary and high schools in Brooklyn and Queens, welcomed students back for the new academic year.

Among them is Saint Francis Prep, the Queens school closed for several days last spring following an outbreak of the H1N1 virus.

The school's principal, Brother Leonard Conway, said measures have been taken to prevent another possible outbreak including a top to bottom cleaning of the facility. The school has also installed hand sanitizing stations and even purchased thousands of disposable thermometers.

"We have ordered 3,000 of these small bandaid looking thermometers which you just simply peel and place on the student's foreheads and in less than 15 seconds you have a temperature reading," Conway said.

There is also a new policy in place to handle the possibility of large numbers of sick children going to the nurses office.

During the outbreak last spring, more than 165 students came down with the virus and some of them had to sit in the hallway outside because the office could not accommodate all of them.

"The nurse's office is located right outside the auditorium and in the event more than 10 students are not feeling well with flu-like symptoms, we will be moving them to here into the auditorium area so they will be isolated until their parents can arrive to pick them up and take them home," Conway said.

While the school has its plan in place, Conway is hoping it won't be necessary.

"Actually the experts are telling us that since so many of our students were sick last year there is a strong possibility that they and many of us may have developed an immunity to it," Conway said.

City public schools reopen Wednesday, along with Catholic schools in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island.