Nearly half of our students have been in school for 96% or more of the year so far while 13.2% haven't missed a day!  Keep it up!  

At the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District, we believe every school day counts in a child's academic life.  Not only is it the law in California for children between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend school, but missing school can have a detrimental effect on many aspects of a child's life.  A relationship between attendance and achievement can appear early in a child's school career.  A study conducted in 2007 proved that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten had adverse effects on achievement in the first grade and led to greater absenteeism in later years and lower scores in reading and math.  Later in a child's academic career, absenteeism contributes to the likelihood of negative behaviors and increases the chance that a child will drop out of high school.  Ultimately, children who miss school are denied an opportunity to participate in instructional programs and are sometimes further excluded from learning opportunities due to chronic absenteeism.    

Below is the YCJUSD Attendance Dashboard data that paints a picture of the steady decline in Average Daily Attendance (ADA) since the pandemic, which affects children in the ways described above and damages instructional programs by taking revenue away from local school districts (explained below).