• Attendance

  • Every School Day Counts

    If your child misses school for any of the reasons listed on the right, please email or send a note to school upon their return.  This allows the teacher to mark your child's absence excused.

    If the student fails to bring a note, the absence will be regarded as unexcused until a parent provides a written explanation.  Attendance letters are automatically generated when a student accumulates 5, 7 and 10 unexcused absences.

Student Absences

  • School attendance is important because it underscores the significance of learning and the importance of obtaining an education in our society in addition to helping students develop good work habits that will carry over in life. Good attendance also correlates strongly with improved grades. A minimum level of attendance is required for attainment of the Academic Knowledge and Skills (AKS) curriculum. The responsibility of school attendance is that of both parents and students.

    In compliance with state law, only those absences due to the following reasons are excused:

    1. Personal illness or attendance in school endangers a student’s health or the health of others. Local boards of education may require students to present appropriate medical documentation upon the return to school for the purpose of validating the absence is an excused absence.

    2. A serious illness or death in the student’s immediate family necessitating absence from school. In the event of a serious illness in a student’s immediate family, local boards of education may require students to present appropriate medical documentation regarding the family member upon return to school for the purpose of validating the absence is an excused absence.

    3. A court order or an order by a government agency, including preinduction physical examinations for service in the armed forces, mandating absence from school.

    4. Observing religious holidays, necessitating absence from school.

    5. Conditions rendering attendance impossible or hazardous to student health or safety. For Gwinnett County Public Schools, the closure of schools for hazardous conditions may only be made by the Superintendent for the purposes of excused absences.

    6. A period not to exceed one day is allowed at the discretion of the local unit of administration for registering to vote or voting in a public election.

    7. Local boards of education shall count students present when they are serving as pages for the Georgia General Assembly.

    8. Visiting with a parent or legal guardian prior to or during leave from deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National Guard (maximum of five school days per year).