cchemell@greenville.k12.sc.us
Phone 864-355-7001
Fax 864-355-7077
ATTENDANCE MATTERS
We hope the information you find here is helpful and answers any questions you have about student attendance for the school year.
If you have any further questions, please contact Cindy Chemell (cchemell@greenville.k12.sc.us).
Click here for online attendance excuse
ATTENDANCE
Students should turn in an excuse for ALL absences within 3 days of returning to school.
Students are allowed 10 absences. Absences in excess of 10 days will not be considered excused with a parent/note unless accompanied by medical documentation.
Without a note, ALL absences are unexcused.
Notes can be sumitted by the student in the front office, online or emailed, and faxed to the front office.
TRUANCY: If a student has 3 or more consecutive unexcused absenses or 5 total unexcused absences an attendance intervention conference will be scheduled with attendance clerk.
TARDIES
Any student not in class by 8:30 is tardy and should report to the front office for a pass.
EXCUSED TARDIES: Only students who arrive late to school with a valid doctor's note, on a late bus, or with a court document will be excused.
UNEXCUSED TARDIES: Each student is permitted 4 unexcused tardies per semester without consequence.
5th unexcused tardy a parent phone call will be made.
6th unexcused tardy Lunch Detention will be assigned.
7th and all subsequent tardies within a semester, a referral will be processed with a consequence.
EARLY DISMISSALS
NO EARLY DISMISSALS WILL BE ALLOWED AFTER 2:30 pm.
Student will bring note signed by parent to the front office by 8:15am.
Parent/Guardian is required to come to the Main Office and sign the student out.
Identification is required for ALL dismissals.
If anyone other than parent/guardian is to pick up the student, identification is required and person must be on student's emergency form.