Attendance

A parent should call by 8:30 am the day of absence. If no call is received, the attendance office will call home that evening using the auto-dialer to your home number. A parent must call within 24 hours of the absence to excuse the absence. (For example, if son or daughter is absent on a Monday, we need a call by 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday). Please be aware that the law defines “truant” as an unexcused absence for at least one class period during the day. Therefore, parent communication regarding absences is very important.

How are tardies counted?

Tardies are totaled on a per-semester basis and are cumulative, counting all class periods. On the eighth (8th) tardy, a student may be placed on an attendance contract for closer monitoring. The attendance contract remains in effect for the entire school year.Please monitor your student's attendance on Infinite Campus. 

The absence becomes unexcused or marked as a truancy. If a student accumulates five truancies and is under 16 years old, they may be cited into C.U.T.S. and fined a $50 assessment fee. Students over 16 may be dropped with a failing grade and placed in an alternative class. Students will not be given credit for work missed during truancies.

A student can accumulate nine excused absences per semester and 18 excused absences for the entire school year. Any additional absences after nine per semester will require a doctor’s excuse note and are considered excessively absent. If no parent verification is received, the absence turns into a truancy on the fifth unverified absence and the student may lose credit in that class. Credit will not be given for work missed when a student is marked truant.

A student that is absent more than 10 percent (18 days) of the required number of school days per year is considered to have “excessive absences” whether the absence is excused or unexcused.

Call the attendance lines at 602-449-3001. They are available 24 hours a day to leave a message. Monitor your child’s attendance and timeliness online by logging into Infinite Campus. Verify the number our automated dialer uses to call home for school communication so the auto-dialer calls are received. Please call the Attendance Office before there is a problem.

School begins at 7:30 a.m. If your child arrives after 7:30 a.m. and before 7:50 a.m., your child is to go to the tardy table at the main gate by the reception. Students will receive a pass to class and marked tardy. This does NOT excuse them from being tardy. The only acceptable excuses for tardies are medical, legal, or dental. Parent phone calls will not excuse the tardy. If your child arrives after 7:50 a.m., they are marked absent and sent to class. In the case of a late bus, students will be given a pass to class without penalty.

Students have seven minutes to get to class. If they are arrived in the first 10 minutes, they report to class and are marked tardy. The Dean of Students will run a bi-weekly report to determine the students who have accumulated three or more tardies in a semester. Those students will meet with the Dean of Students and earn a consequence. If students arrive 10 minutes after the tardy bell without a pass, they will be marked truant. Truancy consequences then apply this can include the Court Unified Truancy Suppressions (CUTS) program or on-campus consequences.

After three events of tardiness, students will be assigned a progression of consequences including lunch detentions, after-school detentions and in school suspension.

Tardies are totaled on a per-semester basis and are cumulative, counting all class periods. On the eighth (8th) tardy, a student may be placed on an attendance contract for closer monitoring. The attendance contract remains in effect for the entire school year.Please monitor your student's attendance on Infinite Campus.