Attendance Policy

Child Success Center


Did you know attendance is critical to your child’s success?

•It is the parent/guardian’s responsibility to get their child to school.

•Missing just five days of school means 30 hours of missed instructional time.

•Starting in kindergarten, there is a direct link between absences and reading level.

•One in ten kindergarten and first-grade students is chronically absent.

•Students who are chronically absent are 7.5 times more likely to drop out of high school.

CHRONIC ABSENCE: 10 or more days

WARNING SIGNS: 7-9 days

SATISFACTORY: 6 or fewer days

Three easy ways to report an absence: