Carolina High School & Academy Attendance

Procedures

Daily attendance will be recorded during each class period.
The school’s automated system will call students' homes to notify parents of the student’s absence.
Parents should notify the attendance clerk of absences and any address or telephone number changes.
The attendance clerk’s record of attendance is the official record used to grant or deny academic credit.

Students who suffer from a chronic illness or a medical condition that is being treated by a doctor should provide a physician's note advising the school of the student's condition, i.e. asthma, diabetes.
The note will be placed in the student's attendance file. Thereafter, if the student is absent due to this medical condition, a parent note referring to the doctor's note on file may be sent so that it will not be necessary to go to the doctor each time a relapse occurs.
The student should then bring a parent note. All absences must have some form of verification.
The chronic illness verification note must be updated annually.

Students who cannot attend school because of mental or physical illness, an accident, or pregnancy should apply for homebound instruction.
The students will not have absences count against them provided they complete all academic requirements.
Any questions regarding homebound instruction should be directed to the guidance office.

All students tardy to school must report directly to the front office in order to be admitted to class.
Tardiness due to a late bus is excused.
Any student more than 45 minutes late to class shall be counted absent for attendance credit purposes.

Students are expected to be on time to all classes.
1st Tardy: Conversation with designated person
2nd Tardy: Conversation with designated person
3rd Tardy: Student makes phone call home to parent
4th Tardy and all subsequent tardies: Student makes phone call home and assigned detention

Notes:
- Students should be coded as unexcused tardy by the teacher
- Students with bus tardies or excused tardies will be coded accordingly by administrators, counselors, or front office staff. Students who report to class ten minutes later than bus arrival time will be counted as tardy.
- Tardies are cumulative and not by period or day.
- Example: A student late to 1st and 3rd periods in one day will have two tardies and be on step 2
- Tardies will reset every nine weeks or any time a student can go four consecutive weeks without being tardy. Teachers cannot hold students after class causing them to be late to their next class period

Students earn detention for their fourth tardy and consecutive tardies after the fourth
Detention will take place on Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri from 3:50-4:30
Students will be assigned a date to serve detention
Students must be in the room by 3:50 and will not be permitted to enter late
Students who do not show up will receive a referral for a detention violation

Parents must verify all early dismissals. This can be done two ways:
Parents or Guardians may write a note. Students can deliver that note prior to school to get an early dismissal slips.
Parents or guardians may call in. However, in order to verify identify, the call must be from a number which is verified on the student's contact file.

Classified as a senior
Enrolled in courses needed to complete requirements of the SC High School Diploma
Scheduled for two (2) periods per semester
Parent/guardian signs and submits request form by deadline

Classified as a junior
On track to complete requirements for the SC High School Diploma
Scheduled for three (3) periods per semester
Presented proof of registration for a college course taking place at a time that would require him/her to get out of school early
Parent/guardian signs and submits request form by deadline
Students must leave the high school within 10 minutes of their last class unless they have approval from administration.