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Attendance

Attendance Policy

Attendance Policy Overview

Attendance & Legal Obligations
Ensuring steady school attendance is a shared duty among the school district, students, and parents/guardians. In accordance with Nevada State Law (NRS 392.040), any person having legal custody of a student is required to send them to school for the entire duration of each instructional day. Regular attendance is expected of every enrolled student.
Punctuality & Campus Privileges
Unexcused tardiness interrupts classroom instruction and undermines learning for everyone. Students are expected to arrive at every class on time, every single day.

Excused Absences & Absence Limits

Clearing an Absence

Authorized Approvals: Only primary contacts listed in Infinite Campus are authorized to clear student tardies or absences.

  • Time Limit: Absences must be cleared within three (3) school days following the student's return. Unexcused absences past this deadline automatically become truancies.
  • Medical Documentation: For excessive absences or tardies, official documentation (such as a physician's note) will be required. If documentation is not turned in within three days of return, the absence will remain unexcused.

Unexcused Absence Limits & DMV Certification

  • 7-Absence Cap: To align with our schedule, students should not exceed seven (7) total absences per semester.
  • Loss of Credit & Driving Privileges: Accumulating eight (8) or more absences leads to direct loss of course credit. Furthermore, school officials will not sign the DMV-301 form, preventing the student from securing or keeping a Nevada instruction permit or driver's license.

Disciplinary Guidelines

Progressive discipline for being tardy

  1. The reminder
  2. Parent/Guardian contact
  3. A “reset” conversation with administration + lunch detention + parent contact
  4. Mandatory parent meeting with administration + Attendance contract review + Assigned Synchronous Sessions or mandatory in-person attendance for Flex Mondays for each class with 4+ tardies
  5. Students in excess of 10 tardies in any one class within a semester will be placed on probation. 

Progressive Discipline for truancy and unexcused absences

1 & 2. CTTA contacts parent/guardian on day of absence

3. Formal notification letter mailed to parent/guardian

4 & 5. CTTA contacts parent/guardian on day of absence

6. Formal notification letter mailed to parent/guardian + mandatory parent conference

7. Truancy officer referral

8. Formal denial of credit letter sent to parent/guardian

10+. Students in excess of 10 or more absences (excused or unexcused) in any one class within a semester will be placed on probation. 

CTTA Probation

Students who violate the guidelines related to attendance will be placed on probation. Probationary Process 

STEP 1 Students will be placed on probation if they are in violation of the contract.

STEP 2 A probation conference will be scheduled with the parent/guardian to discuss the  conditions of the probation. 

STEP 3 Conditions of the probation. A student that does not make significant improvement  with their attendance will need to partake in the supports provided by the school. 

  • Supports include assigned synchronous sessions, Flex Mondays, and daily in-person learning if there is insufficient improvement. 

Students who do not meet the obligations of probation may be dismissed from the program at the  end of the school year.

Submit an Absence Note

Submit an abscence note here.

DMV Form

Click here for Driving Permit information and to get your Certificate of Attendance (DMV 301) form.