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Attendance

Need to excuse your student?  Use any of the following options.

Visit ParentVue.

Email dehsattendance@aguafria.org.

Call 623-932-7500, wait for the prompts, and dial extension 3011 or 3012 to leave a message.  If you need a call back, please allow 24 hours. 

Student Checkout

If you need to sign your student out early, phone calls will no longer be accepted. Only a legal guardian can email to sign a student out. 

Please email dehsattendance@aguafria.org and include the following information: 

  • Student ID Number
  • Student Full Name
  • Reason for Early Checkout
  • A valid copy of your Driver's License/State Issued Identification.

Last Call Out

M/T/R/F
3:00 PM
W
1:00 PM
If called out after the abovementioned times, students will not be released until the usual end of the day release time.

Absences

On the day of the absence, a parent/ legal guardian must notify by email at dehsattendance@aguafria.org or ParentVue.

Please email absences within 24 hours. After 24 hours, the absence can no longer be excused.

Notes from parent/ guardian will also be accepted but must be presented to the attendance office BEFORE THE 1st SCHEDULED CLASS and WITHIN 24 HOURS.

Medical absences must have a doctor's note submitted to the attendance office in person or via email within 24 hours of the student's return to school.

Students who have 10 consecutive days of absences in all classes WILL BE DROPPED from school for non-attendance.

The attendance office will often take up to 10 days to enter all school business (SB) activities.

UNEXCUSED ABSENCES:
A student is NOT EXCUSED in the following situations:

  • Failure to attend school without proper authorization
  • Leaving school without signing out through the attendance office. Students with permission to leave campus during the school day MUST SIGN OUT THROUGH ATTENDANCE before leaving with a pass.
  • No parental notification was given to the school for the student's absence
  • Unauthorized absence from a class
  • Missing the school bus.

Tardies

Phone calls are no longer necessary to excuse tardies.  

  • Students arriving on campus after 8:30 AM will check in at Attendance.
  • Students are only allowed five tardies per semester.
  • Once five have been reached, an after school detention will be assigned per school policy.
  • To get students to class as soon as possible, students must scan their Student ID in the Attendance Office.

TARDY PROCEDURES:

  • Attendance is taken at the start of every class.
  • If a student is late to class in the first 5 minutes of class teachers will mark them TARDY.
  •  If a student arrives to class without a pass from attendance, the student will remain marked as absent for the period. 
  • A student is considered absent if they miss 15 minutes or more of the classroom period.
  • Every 5 tardies will equal 1 absence.

TARDY CONSEQUENCES:

Tardy for 1st is marked by attendance

 

For periods 2-6:

  • Tardy 1-4: The teacher has a conversation with the student and parents.

  • Tardy 5: After School Detention is assigned.

  • Tardy 6-9: Teacher has a conversation with student and parents. Another ASD can be assigned.

  • Tardy 10: Student referral to the office is written. An extended detention will be assigned.

Any tardies beyond 10 will be monitored and addressed by the Administration and may result in Saturday School, In School Suspension, or Out of School Suspension.