Attendance

Attendance Desk Phone Number: 970-328-8960 English 
Attendance Desk Phone Number: 970-328-8961 Spanish 

If the lines are busy or no one answers, please leave a message or email as we check those frequently. 

For the safety of students and the accurate monitoring of attendance, please follow the procedures below.                        

When calling the attendance line, please leave a VOICE MAIL message with your student’s name, SPELLING LAST NAME, your name and phone number where you can be reached, the date and times of the absence, and the reason your student is missing class.

1.) Absences cannot be excused without a specific date and specific class period given or all day.

2.) 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 correction needs 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.                     

Our computerized parent notification system will contact you each evening to inform you of unresolved absences. Messages on the attendance line are reviewed daily and every effort is made to update PowerSchool in a timely manner, however, changes may take up to 24 hours to reflect in our student’s record. 

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

Early Dismissal Procedures

Please call the attendance line to excuse your student from those periods they will miss completely. If you are calling with less than one hour's notice of the required early dismissal. The attendance office can contact the class to notify the teacher to release the student. Due to the size of our campus, requests to release a student from class cannot always be accommodated on short notice – we may not have someone available to deliver the notification in a timely manner.

Parent Notification

Our computerized parent notification system will call your home each evening to inform you of unexcused absences. A call to the Attendance Office to excuse the absence on the day of the absence (before 8:40 a.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.

Attendance Codes:

TE=Tardy Excused
            Less than 25 minutes and has a verifiable reason

TU=Tardy Unexcused
              Student arrives less than 25 minutes late with no verifiable reason

A=Unresolved
            Either not in class or more than 25 minutes late and no contact with parent as to why student is absent

E=Excused 
            Usually something that can’t wait until after hours ie. Court, drivers license, etc

 F=Field Trip 
            Off school grounds activity with a teacher or coach

U=Unexcused
             If an absence is unresolved and we do not have contact with a parent, it then becomes unexcued.

 I=Illness 
            Ill or injured

 P=Pre Excused 
            Pre-excused form signed by parent and all teachers prior to the absence (pre-excused form)

AE=Appointment Excused
            appointments that are verified with a note from a dr and/or dentist

AU=Appointment Unexcused
            Appointments that a note has note been received for yet

ME=Misc Excused
            Parents have excused the absence that does not fall within the other descriptions

SA=School Activity
            Not in class, but doing an activity within the building for school activity ie  Stuco, AVID

V=College Visitation 

G=Testing
               Required state testing 

N=Nurse

X=Truancy

B=Bereavement

EX=Expelled

CO=Counselor or Office
                   With the counselor or in the main office