It is important that students attend school every day. It is difficult to teach students and it is difficult for students to learn unless the student attends school regularly. If a student is sick, has a death in the family, must attend a religious ceremony or has another legitimate excuse that keeps the student from attending school, the student must do the following:

1. On the day following any absence, and at the beginning of the school day, bring and deliver to the student’s    coach a note from and signed by the student’s parent, guardian, performing healer or doctor which explains the reasons for the student’s absence. If the note is sufficient and establishes a legitimate excuse for the absence as defined herein, the absence will be “excused” and the student will be allowed to make up their school work.

2. Immediately upon returning from an excused absence, the student must ask the student’s teacher(s) for any missed assignments and makeup work. The student must then promptly complete and turn in any missed work or assignments so they are not behind.

Excessive student absenteeism will result in:

(a) parent notification; and

(b) retention;

Students are required to be in school a minimum of one hundred and sixty (160) days per school year. There are approximately one hundred and eighty (180) days of school in a school year.

All students are required to attend classes when school is in session. A student who was absent from school without reason will have their parents immediately contacted by the registrar. If a student misses 3 consecutive days, parents will be contacted by the registrar. Students who are absent ten (10) days in a school year, are required to have a parent conference with the Principal. After fifteen (15) days of absences in a school year, a warning letter will be sent to the parents regarding a student’s absences. The School will drop or retain in grade a student with more than twenty (20) days absences or 15 consecutive days.