Attendance Office

olh.attendance@sweetwaterschools.org

Important Notices:

• Please Click HERE  to excuse your students absence 

•  All off campus requests must be made 2 hours prior to check out

• No off campus slips for students after 3:20 PM

General Information

Attendance Guidelines & Protocols:  Students are required by state law to attend every class, every day. All absences are initially recorded as unresolved until an email or a phone call. An automatic phone message will be made home after each un-cleared absence. All absences, including those related to sports, extra-curricular activities, and/or testing can take up to 48 hours to clear.  Any student submitting a forged or altered email/phone call will face disciplinary action. 

Excessive Excused Absences:

According to the SUHSD policy Regulation code AR 5113 (D, E), it has been established that it is reasonable to be absent 1 day a month (equivalent to 7 days per semester or 14 days in a school year). Having more than 14 days of excused absences, may place your child under an “excessive excused absence contract”.

When in person, students can clear excused, as well as unexcused, absences in Saturday School; (1) one 4-hour Saturday School session will clear (1) one full day absence.

Whenever an absence occurs for medical reasons, please make sure to provide a doctor’s note within (30) days, as these absences are coded differently.

 If a student is absent 14 or more excused days a semester or more than seven days in one semester, the following measure will/may apply:

1.   Contact by Attendance Coordinator

2.   Excessive Excused Absence Contract (lasts 365 days from issuance)

3.   If contract is not followed: PRE-SARB Contract

4.   SARB (Student Attendance Review Board)

• A student with (9) full unexcused days absent will be subject to a hearing at the district office, which results in a parent and students signing an attendance contract with a truancy probation officer. If SARB contract is violated, student will be referred to the Juvenile Justice System and/or be placed on probation.

5.   Alternative school placement

6. Students with excessive excused absences and/or unexcused absences may be placed on the non - priveledged list.