Regular attendance is essential for your child's academic success and overall development. Consistent attendance helps students keep up with lessons, build strong social skills, and develop a sense of responsibility that will benefit them throughout life. Missing school can lead to learning gaps, making it harder for your child to catch up and achieve their full potential. By ensuring your child attends school every day, you are setting them on a path to success in their education and future endeavors.

We understand that students get sick and must miss school. We know there are family reasons that students miss school, but all hours out of school are counted toward the state's mandatory attendance thresholds. These thresholds are 38 or more hours in one school month or more than 65 hours in one school year.

A parent/guardian phone call may be used to document students' absences when they have less than the state thresholds. However, absences will be counted as unexcused if a student has been absent more than the state threshold. The only way to make an absence not count towards the state threshold is to support the absence with documentation by the child’s treating physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to be considered excused.