Absence

When a student is unable to attend school for any reason, his parents are expected to notify the front office by phone or email between 7:30 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. Extended absence due to illness for more than three days requires valid documentation from the licensed healthcare professional who treated the absent student. This statement is to be presented to the Associate Head of School. Days missed as a result of school suspensions count as days absent (see MAKE-UP WORK).

The office maintains a record of attendance based on the number of class periods from which a student is absent. Therefore, if a student is absent one whole day, he is marked absent from each of the four classes that met that day. If a student checks in after the beginning of a class he is marked absent from that class as well as all earlier classes missed. Similarly, if a student checks out before the end of a class he is marked absent from that class and each subsequent class. A student absent for more than two class periods of a typical four-block day is not permitted to participate in any co-curricular activity on the day or on Saturday if the day absent was a Friday.