Pupil Attendance

Pupil Attendance

Each day at school brings new learning opportunities for each child.  It is very important for each child to be at school each day to be able to engage with those learning opportunities. 

By Ohio State Law "a child between six and eighteen years of age is "of compulsory school age" for the purpose of sections 3321.01 to 3321.13 of the Revised Code." 

5200 - ATTENDANCE (Click Here to view the entire Board Policy Doc)

The educational program offered by this District is predicated upon the presence of the student and requires continuity of instruction and classroom participation. The State of Ohio has established standards for student attendance. Attendance shall be required of all students enrolled in the school during the days and hours that the school is in session or during the attendance sessions to which the student has been assigned.

In accordance with statute, the Superintendent shall require, from the parent or guardian of each student or from an adult student who has been absent from school or from class for any reason, a (written) statement or logged telephone call for such absence.

The Board shall consider each student assigned to a program of other guided learning experiences to be in regular attendance if the student reports to the appropriate teacher, or if the student regularly demonstrates progress toward the objectives of the course of study in an approved alternative program.

A parent(s) or guardian(s) of school aged children shall be required to abide by compulsory education laws. School attendance violations are subject to court prosecution. When any student of compulsory school age is absent without legitimate excuse, they may be classified as habitually or chronically truant as defined by SB 181. The Board authorizes the Superintendent to inform the student and the student's parent(s) or guardian(s) of the truancy record and the District's intent to notify the Judge of Juvenile Court and the Registrar of Motor Vehicles (if applicable contingent of age) of the student's excessive truancy.

The Superintendent shall count students as authorized for ADM purposes, those who have been suspended from school during the first full week in October (official ADM count), if they are participating in an alternative instructional program, and those students who are expelled and enrolled in an alternative program. Those students who miss school due to an emergency or set of circumstances beyond their control, which in the judgment of the Superintendent of Schools constitutes a good and sufficient cause of absence from school, should be coded in EMIS as a non-attending reason number seven (7).

The Superintendent shall develop administrative guidelines governing excuses for absence from school.

R.C. 3313.664, 3321.01 et seq., 3321.13(B)(2), 3321.19, 3321.38, 3331.05
A.C. 3301-35-03(G), 3301-47-01, 3301-51-13

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