Truancy

Truancy information is reported to PEIMS in the summer. School districts must reports students who were truant and what type of action the school district took.

"Truant" student is a student who is required to attend school (age 6 to 18 years under TEC 25.086), but did not attend without excuse for 10 or more days or parts of days within a six month period of a school year.

Students are identified with a periodic eSchool task that checks for unexcused absences. Once the criteria is met, field "excessive absence date determined" is filled out by the software.

Advanced Search - Truancy List

Search will give you a list of all students that have an excessive absence date determined.

Advanced Search for Students with NO Prevention Indicator

This search will give you a list of students without a prevention indicator. Any student who was enrolled at least one day this year will be reported in the Summer Peims submission. If a student withdrew before the campus could take any prevention action, then no action should be entered.

Excessive Absence Date Determined: This date indicates a student who is required to attend school (age 6 to 18 years under TEC 25.086), but did not attend without excuse for 10 or more days or parts of days within a six month period of a school year. This date is calculated by eSchool.

Prevention Indicator Date: This field would only be used when truancy prevention measures were taken but the student is not considered truant.

Prevention Indicator: Indicates the campus initiated a truancy prevention measure under TEC 25.0915 (a-4) for the student.

Complaint Filed Indicator: Indicates whether an attendance officer or other school official has filed a complaint against a student’s parent or legal guardian, under TEC 25.093.

Exclude from State Reporting: Students under 5 years old and over 18 years old will be removed from being reported as truant.

Override Truancy: The Override Truancy field is used to note that a student Date Determined was manually updated and should not be recalculated

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