Bexley High School
Attendance
Student Extracurricular/Co-Curricular Participation Requirement
In order to participate in a school-day practice or contest, a high school or middle school student must be in attendance each period of the school day. Field trips, alternate learning experiences, concurrent enrollment, medical/dental appointments, and special family situations may be excused by a building administrator.
How Absences Are Calculated
Student absences are calculated by hours.
One School Day = 5 hours, 41 minutes
A partial-day absence is calculated using the actual hours/minutes a student was not in school (i.e., if a student arrives at school one hour after the start of the school day, then the absence totals 1 hour).
See the Following Absence Scenarios
The following absences are always excused and do not count toward the 65-hour limit for excused absences.
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Medical/dental appointments with return-to-school documentation (M)
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Field trip/athletic events as part of a school-based group (FT)
- Death of a relative (DF); up to 18 school hours
- Religious observance (RO); up to 3 days per school year
The following absences are excused with parent/guardian notification until the student has accumulated 65 hours of absences for the school year.
- Personal illnesses (PI)
- Illness in a student's family necessitating the presence of the child (FI)
- Quarantine for contagious disease (QH)
- College/school visitation (CV)
- Court appearances (CT)
- Family vacations/other events outside of the building (OT)
All other absences and absences beyond 65 hours for the school year are coded as Unexcused Absences (UA).
When a student accumulates 65 hours of excused absences (non-medical):
- Notification to family; and
- Future absences without medical documentation are unexcused (UA)
When a student accumulates 72 hours of unexcused absences:
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Absence Intervention Plan required
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If the student does not make progress or continues to be excessively absence, the district will file a complain in juvenile court.