The Virginia Beach Department of Health is administering free Tdap shots for all rising sixth-grade students in the city. All rising sixth-graders (as well as new enrolling seventh – 11th-graders) are required to have a booster dose of the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine. If a tetanus containing vaccine has been administered in the five years prior to sixth-grade entry, this booster vaccine is not required.