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Attendance

Attendance Counts!
 
Regular attendance is essential for your child's success! LAUSD expects all students to maintain a 96% or better attendance rate (missing fewer than 7 days in one school year).

Benefits of regular attendance:
 
  • Higher academic achievement
  • Use more academic language
  • Develop healthy habits for the future
  • Demonstrate reliability and confidence
  • Make and keep connections with others
 
Please plan your vacations during Thanksgiving or winter break, spring break, and summer vacation.

If your child is absent for three days without a valid excuse, they are truant, and you will receive a truancy letter from the district.
 
If your children are tired, they must come to school. If your children are ill with a fever or vomiting, please keep them home.

Tardiness

School starts at 8, don't be late!  School begins at 8:00 am. If your child is not in line by 8:00 a.m., he/she will be considered tardy. If your child is tardy for 30 minutes or more for three days without a valid excuse, your child will be considered truant.