Attendance

For the safety of students and the accurate monitoring of attendance, please follow the procedures below. Absences will not be excused without a specific date and specific class periods that will be missed.

If your student attends CCIC, you'll need to call their attendance line as well to excuse classes for CCIC. CCIC Attendance Line: 720-554-2695.

Option 1: Submit the Google Form

For the 2024-2025 school year, we will initiate this additional option to report absences by Google Form to report full day absences, late arrivals, and early dismissals.

CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE GOOGLE FORM 

• Students may still bring a signed note to the MAIN OFFICE prior to the start of the school day for EARLY DISMISSALS.

Option 2: Leave a Voicemail Message

Illnesses During the School Day

In the event that a student becomes ill at school and needs to go home, they must either:

• Report to the clinic. The nurse will phone a parent/guardian and obtain permission.
• Have a parent/guardian call and give permission to the main office at the time the student is leaving.

Parent Notification

Our computerized parent notification system will call your designated number at the end of each school day to inform you of unexcused absences. A call to the Attendance Office to excuse the absence on the day of the absence (before 2:00 p.m.) will prevent the computer from calling you. We appreciate your help in following these procedures. If you have any questions, feel free to call the Attendance Office or your student’s Dean.

GHS Attendance Policies and Procedures

• Absences that are not excused within 48 hours will require the dean’s approval to change the absence to “excused.”
• Errors: If you believe your student was marked tardy or absent in error, your student should communicate directly with their teacher to clear up any discrepancies. If any corrections need to be made, your student's teacher will email the attendance office with any corrections needed. Due to call volume, the attendance office cannot contact your student's teacher for you.  
• In the event of a situation in which the student is supervised temporarily by an adult other than the parents, the parent should notify the attendance office in writing, providing the name, address and phone number of the supervising adult.
• The district may require suitable proof regarding the above exceptions, including written statements from medical sources.
• MAKING UP MISSED WORK AT GRANDVIEW: A reasonable length of time will be allowed for students to prepare and hand in make-up work due to absences. District Policy allows for two days to make up missed work for each day a student is absent (two days means two class contact days).
• A student MAY NOT be excused by a parent or guardian from classes while the student is on campus, including to make-up work or to take a test for another class.  
• All 9^th grade students are expected to remain in attendance on campus at all times during the school day, including during lunch time.  

For all students with attendance concerns, consequences may include:

• Lunch Detention, Off Period Detention, After School Detention, Saturday School Detention, and/or Activities Restrictions (i.e. dances, sports, etc.)
• SSD or ASD may consist of a meeting with post-secondary community resources (guest speaker, vocational employment, etc.)
• For Freshmen and Sophomores, if the above consequences do not curb attendance concerns, the Student Attendance Review Board process below will commence.                   

We appreciate your help in following these procedures. If you have any questions, feel free to call the Attendance Office or your student’s Dean.

Attendance Codes

T - Tardy

• The student arrives late, but within the first 10 minutes of class.

UP - Unexcused Present

• Student arrives 10-50 minutes late to class.

U - Unexcused Absence [1]

• The student doesn't show up to class at all.
• The student arrives more than 50 minutes late. [2]
• The student does not return from lunch.
• The student leaves early and fails to return to class and/or leaves without permission. [3]

Q - Truant

• This code indicates that the Dean has met with the student and has determined the absence in question is truancy related.

* For any of the above processes, please reference CCSD Policy JH, JHB, JIC, JFC-R, JK, and JEA.

The district may require suitable proof regarding the above exceptions, including written statements from medical sources.

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[1} 3.02 (2) (a) Unexcused Absences occur when the student is absent without a reason or for an unacceptable reason as identified within the attendance rules set by local school board of education policy as declared in 22-33-104 (4)(a) C.R.S.

[2] 3.03 (3) For Department reporting purposes, a student who is absent from school without a valid and verifiable excuse by the parent/guardian that is consistent with school or board policy as defined in 22-33-104 (4)(a) C.R.S. or the student leaves school or class without permission of authorized school staff.

[3] 2,00 (13) “Unexcused Absence/Truancy” means a student is absent from school without a valid and verifiable excuse by the parent/guardian that is consistent with school or board policy as defined in 22-33-104 (4)(a) C.R.S. or the student leaves school or a class without permission of authorized school staff.

http://www.cherrycreekschools.org/BOE/SectionJPolicies/JH.pdf