Students shall be counted in attendance if they are actually present at school at the time the attendance is taken or are away from school on a school day and engaged in an educational activity that constitutes a part of the school-approved instructional program for the student (Section 1003.23, Florida Statutes).
Attendance Standard
A. All students are expected to be on time and present each day school is open during the school year.
B. Students may not be absent from school without permission of the principal/designee.
- The school principal or designee is the only person authorized to excuse a student’s absence.
- A note from a parent/guardian is a request that a student’s absence be excused.
- For enforcement of school attendance purposes, unless acceptable documentation is submitted, an accumulation of daily unexcused absences that equal five (5) days in a calendar month or ten (10) days within a ninety calendar day period, may be exhibiting a pattern of non-attendance as determined by the Attendance Review Committee/Child Study Team.
- If the student exceeds the ten (10) parent/guardian notes in a school year, principals may request additional documentation for subsequent absences.
C. Habitual tardiness is defined as six (6) or more tardies to school or to an individual class per quarter.
D. For enforcement of compulsory school attendance, three unexcused tardies or unexcused early sign-outs may, at the discretion of the school principal, be considered equal to one day of absence.
Make-Up Work
A student who is absent and the absence is determined to be an excused absence, as defined by School Board Policy 4.16, is required to make up all course work missed. It is the student’s responsibility to obtain assignments from the appropriate teacher(s) upon returning to class immediately following an absence. The student will be given the number of days absent plus one additional day to make up all work missed for full credit.
Middle School Tardy Policy
For every class tardy periods 2-7 the student will receive a minor infraction.
The fourth tardy will automatically create a referral and your student will serve a lunch detention.
Every tardy thereafter for the quarter will result in a lunch detention.
The tardies will reset each quarter.