Absence Policy

If your child misses a day of school due to illness or a medical appointment, please complete an excuse slip from the blue district book and send it in on the first day your child returns back to school. After an absence of 5 consecutive days, a doctor’s excuse must be presented. District policy states that a parent’s excuse form will be accepted with limitations.  In the elementary school, the limit is an accumulation of 10 days.  All excuses for absences must be turned in within three days after the return from absence.  Otherwise the absence may be recorded as unexcused. 

Suggested Practices
Keep a child home from school when he’s contagious, and/or has a temperature of 100 degrees or over. We recommend no fever for 24 hours before returning to school. We recommend you keep a child home until there has been 24 hours after the last time the child vomits. If your child is not feeling well, send them to school with a note so you can be contacted easily if anything progresses. 

Pre-Arranged Absences 

If your child will be missing school because of a family trip, please fill out the form below. Once the pre-arranged absence form is completed and returned to school, missed work will be sent home with your child, if applicable.