Attendance: 

Student attendance is to be regular and punctual.  Daily and timely attendance supports academic success and healthy social/emotional development. When students are absent, they miss valuable learning and time with their peers, both of which are critical in your child's growth. Consistent, on-time attendance is a priority. It is the responsibility of all students to make up class work missed during an absence.

School starts at 8:05 a.m. It is important that students arrive on time. Frequent or persistent tardiness is a disadvantage to your child as well as a disruption to the class. 

Lates/Tadies:

Students should be at their line-up area on the playground no later than 8:05 a.m. Students arriving late to school are to check in at the school office, pick up a late/tardy slip, and proceed to class. Students arriving less than 30 minutes late to school will receive a late slip. Students arriving late to school by 30 minutes or longer will receive a tardy slip. 

Absences:

All absences from school must be verified by a parent and/or guardian with a signed note, email to the teacher and attendance clerk, or with a call to the office at (818) 241-2164, press 1 and leave a message by following the directions. The parent/guardian note is to state the date of the absence and the reason for the absence (illness or other reason). 

Absences not cleared within three days will automatically become truancies. 

According to state law, the only excused absences are illness, bereavement of an immediate family member, religious holiday, and court appearances. The principal may consider other absences as justifiable when requested in writing in advance. Justifiable absences shall be granted for a maximum of three days (GUSD Administrative Regulation 5113).

If your child is absent more than 3 days consecutively or more than 7 days within this school year, a doctor's note will be required to excuse the absence.  Please plan for your vacation days with our school calendar in mind. 

Parents must notify the health clerk before a student returns if they have had a communicable disease, fracture, or been under a doctor’s care for a prolonged illness lasting five or more days. In these special cases, the student must return to school with a doctor’s note releasing them to return to school. 

Tardies and absences are included on your child’s report card, which becomes part of your child’s permanent record. 

A letter will be sent home if there are repeated incidents of tardies or absences.