California school law requires that students attend school regularly, unless they are specifically excused for a good reason.  Students should be absent only for illness/injury or emergency. If your child is absent due to illness or injury, please call the office and inform the secretary before 9:00 a.m. A routine call will be made to your home if you do not contact us. Upon returning to school, a written excuse with the date, reason for the absence, and the parent/legal guardian’s signature must be given to the teacher. These notes will be maintained on file for a period of one year.

Students, who are to be excused from school during the day, must bring a note from their parents to the teacher on the day of the appointment. The parent must stop at the school office to sign out their child.

Students receive a medical absence if a written certification from the doctor or dentist’s office is presented to the office upon returning to school from such appointments. If the office does not receive a note, the child will be marked tardy or absent.

If a child has had any contagious or communicable disease, a release from his/her doctor or from the Health Department must be presented before the child can be readmitted to class. If a student is absent 15 or more days in a quarter, no report card will be given.  Excessive absences may be grounds for non-promotion, academic probation, or dismissal.