Grades and Attendance

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Synergy StudentVUE and ParentVUE provide students and families the ability to view assignments, grades and attendance. However, please contact the attendance specialist at your school if you would like to report an absence.

Attendance Policy Summary

The staff at Newport High School considers regular attendance essential to learning. Classroom sessions are carefully planned and are a valuable experience that cannot always be duplicated. Absence creates difficulty for both students and teachers in maintaining continuity in student progress. Washington State law requires that children attend school. We are required, by law, to track absences and identify them as excused or unexcused.

EXCUSED ABSENCES include illness, medical or dental appointments, religious observances and family emergencies. Please report your child’s absence or late arrival prior to the start of the school day.

FAMILY VACATIONS should be planned for non-school days. If there is a special reason for an absence on a school day (e.g. family trip), please print or pick up and complete a Request for Excused Absence form from the main office at least one week prior to the absence and return to the office. Your student's teacher will review your situation and determine whether the absence will adversely affect learning. Based on this information, the principal or assistant principal will determine whether the absence will be excused or unexcused. Prearranged absences due to vacation for more than five days in a school year will not be approved. Failure to follow procedure will result in an unexcused absence. Students may be approved for five prearranged absences per school year.

UNEXCUSED ABSENCES: State law requires that we follow specific steps for unexcused student absences, including parent conferencing. Students who have ten unexcused absences fall under the BECCA law and must be referred to the courts.

MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS: When your student returns from an excused absence, the teacher will provide make-up assignments, as appropriate. Make-up assignments are not provided in advance.

Any other missed days moving forward for non-school reasons or those outside the valid excuse policy will be unexcused absences.

Since absences affect a student’s academic performance, parents will be notified by phone each day that a student is marked absent unexcused.

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Pre-Arranged Absences

Students who know they will be absent prior to an absence must pick up a pre-arranged absence form from the attendance office. Students need to obtain signatures from each of their teachers and their parent/guardian before returning the form to the Attendance Office. The purpose of teacher signatures is for the teacher to communicate the impact of the absence.

This form must be completed and returned to the Attendance Office four school days prior to the student‘s absence. Students should note that these pre-arranged absences will count towards their attendance allotment. Up to five days of pre-arranged absences will be excused per student per school year.

An absence may not be approved if it causes a serious adverse effect on the student’s educational process. Unexcused absence will count towards the five days that an administrator can excuses.

Early Dismissal

Send an email or a signed note with your student in the morning. State the time the student needs to leave and reason for leaving. Students will show the note to their teacher as necessary, then bring the note to the attendance office and sign out. If the student has no note, staff will attempt to call parents/guardians for verbal permission for the student to leave but we will not excuse the student if we cannot reach you. We must have an email or a written note (or speak with a parent) prior to the student leaving in order for the absence to be excused.

A student who becomes ill after having arrived on campus must report to the clinic and/or attendance office. After receiving parental approval via phone, the student will be directed to sign out with the nurse or the attendance office before leaving campus and sending an email or bring an excuse note upon his/her return.

Late Arrival

Absence Corrections

All student absences will be classified as excused or unexcused. Absences will be excused if there is timely verification. Verification must be an email or a written signed note from a parent or doctor within two school days upon return. Under exceptional circumstances, a parent/guardian or adult student may meet with their administrator to discuss other options.

Once a student turns 18, he/she may obtain a form from an administrator indicating the wish to write his/her own notes for excused absences. The form requires signatures from the student and the parent/guardian.

Absence Types

Examples of excused absences:

Illness
Medical or Dental Appointment
Family Emergency (death in family)
College visits
Religious observances
Participation in BHS athletics/activity/event

Examples of unexcused absences:

Oversleeping
Driver’s Ed
Spending class time in school areas such as the library, Commons, or hallways without teacher approval
Leaving campus without approval
Errands, shopping, personal grooming

Per District requirements, students must attend a minimum of five classes for a seven-period schedule and four classes for a six-period schedule that day or the preceding day if the activity/dance/event/practice occurs on a non-school day. On a block schedule day, students must attend all but one period.

Tardies

Late arrival to class can disrupt the continuity of instructional time and ultimately detract from the learning experiences of all students.

Students are expected to arrive to class on time. This means that students are expected to be in their classrooms, in their seats, and ready for class at the beginning of the class. When a student’s tardiness becomes frequent or disruptive, the student may be referred to the principal or counselor and may be subject to corrective action.

If a student is tardy or absent for 10 minutes or more, the tardy may be counted as an absence.

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