Dear High School Community,

As we continue preparing for next year, we want to highlight several handbook updates intended to serve our students well. The clarifications around attendance, tardiness, absences, truancy, and Academic Support are meant to be pastoral and formative. When a student has missed a significant portion of instructional time, especially approaching or exceeding 20% of their scheduled classes, we want to catch that student with support before gaps become too difficult to repair. This includes six unexcused tardies, which will be indicated as one unexcused absence as well. 

This is especially important as students move toward their terminal AP courses, graduation requirements, and university life. Regular attendance helps form the habits of diligence, responsibility, perseverance, and faithfulness that students will need beyond our classrooms. The updated policy gives the school clearer guidance for identifying patterns of missed instructional time, including repeated partial-day absences, and for placing students on Academic Support when needed until improvement is shown.

We also want to remind families of the upcoming uniform transition to CollegePro. Next year will be a year of transition, allowing families time to adjust while we move toward the updated uniform expectations.