Compulsory Attendance Ages

Compulsory School Attendance

Compulsory school attendance shall begin with the school year in which the sixth birthday is reached prior to the first day of September of such year or upon enrolling in a publicly supported kindergarten program and continue to the sixteenth birthday.

Exemption shall be made on behalf of any child for the following causes or conditions in accordance with State Law 18-8-1 and subject to confirmation by the attendance authority of the county:

a.) Instruction in a private, parochial or other approved school;

b.) Instruction in home or other approved place;

c.) Physical or mental incapacity;

d.) Residence more than two miles from school or school bus route;

e.) Hazardous conditions;

f.) High school graduation;

g.) Work permits;

h.) Serious illness or death in the immediate family of the pupil;

i.) Destitution in the home;

j.) Church ordinances or observances of regular churcl1 ordinances;

k.) Alternative private, parochial, church or religious school instruction.

Absences for reasons other than those listed above shall be considered truancy. Any person who, after due notice, fails to cause a child or children to attend school shall be dealt with in accordance with State Law 18-8-2.

Approved: July 1976

Revised: April 6, 1992