The Wappingers Central School District believes that students who are
most successful academically, socially, and emotionally are those who attend
school on a daily basis. We believe parents, teachers, staff, and community
need to be responsible for implementing an attendance policy that will
enhance educational success.
In order to regularly monitor student attendance records and identify
related attendance concerns and issues, a daily register of school attendance
will be maintained in a database. Student absences, tardiness and early
departures will be recorded as excused or unexcused as defined by our
attendance policy.
At the elementary level, teachers will take attendance in homeroom on a
daily basis. Parents will call the school at the opening of the school to
report their children absent for the day. The school will make phone calls
to the homes of the parents of absent children who have not notified the
school of their children's absences. The building administrator will send a
letter home if a pattern of excessive or unusual absences occur. It is the
parent/guardian's responsibility to provide a written excuse with the reason
for absence upon the student's return to school following an absence.
In the event of tardiness, a student is to report to the main office
with a note explaining the reason for tardiness.
