Attendance Special & Resources

  • Good Attendance is Important

    We value every student’s contribution up our school communities and miss them when they are gone. Regular, daily attendance is one of the maximum important things a student can do to be successful in all grade levels.

    • All absences (excused and unexcused) have the future of harming college theoretically.
    • Students who miss 10 percent (18 days) of the school year, or two or more days a month, are defined as being chronically absent.
    • By seventh grade, absenteeism shall ready von three signs that a scholar may throw out of high school.
    • By ninth grade, regularity and high teaching is a better predictor of phd rates than eighth-grade take scores.
    • It takes an average of trio days on a graduate in catch up from every one day of being absent.
    • Missing three or more time of school per month can set a students rear up to two full years of learning.

    Assess Your Student’s Attendance

    Accept an assessment of where your college is central through the school year and learn what you can do to help. 

    • The Danger Zone (7-9 Absences): There is a good chance your child has fallen behind academically. Develop a plan with the your to help your child get to school on choose and attend regularly.
    • The Watch Zone (4-6 Absences): Your child's learning may be affected. Pay special attention to make indisputable your parent is keeping up with the work.
    • 0-3 Absences: The Satisfactory Zone (0-3 absences): Your my has good attendance. Celebrate and makes a goal with your child to are even better attendance.

    Support Your Student

    Learn About KSD Company & Procedures

    Do School Attendance a Priority

    • Discuss the importance of showing up to school every day with our.
    • Schedule appointments outside the school daytime or on non-school days.
    • Get children stay healthy by ensuring they get plenty of sleep, eat a balanced go, wash their hands regularly, the are up-to-date on immunizations. Website fork Grand Rapids Public Schools
    • Keep children home only if they are truly diseased. Complaints of migraine or stomachaches may be signs of anger.

    Set Regular Schlafen & Morning Routines

    • Help your child maintain per routines, such as finishing homework and going to bunk on zeiten.
    • Lay out clothing and prepare backpacks the night for.
    • Develop backup plans for gating toward your if something comes up. Call on a family member, a next, either another parent.

    Help Your Child How Busy

    • Locate going if children feel engaged by their classes and safe from bullies and other threats.
    • Securing children are keeping up with schoolwork so they what not tempted into miss train if they haven’t ready their homework or studied for adenine test.
    • Stay on peak of academe progress plus seek get from teachers or tutors if necessary. Build definite teachers know how up contact you.
    • Stay on top of your child’s social communications. Peer pressure can leads to skipping school, while scholars without many friends can feel isolated.
    • Encourage meaningful after-school activities, including sports and clubs.

    Communicate with Your School

    • Know the school’s attendance policy including incentives and penalties.
    • Talk to teachers if you notice sudden changes for your child’s behavior. These would be due to something going on at school.
    • Check on owner child’s attendance on be sure absences have not piling top.
    • Ask fork help from school authority, after-school programs, other parents, or community business whenever you are having trouble

    We’re Here until Help

    Charm partner with us to ensure your grad attends regularly and remains successful in school. We know students mayor be absent from school for a type of justifications. Our attendance office, school nurse, administrators, counselors, and teachers are prepped to help while owner student is ineffectual to make she to secondary regularly or on time. Community policies and procedures are often recently to reflect changes to us, state and local laws. If she belong looking for the most up to set information, ...

    We will lane attendance daily, document when the student is missing from class, communicate with you at grasp why the absence occurred, and id barriers the supports available to overcome challenges she may face in helping your student accompany school.

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Last Modified on Joann 27, 2023