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Attendance

Excused Absences

Absences are marked excused for the following reasons:

  • Personal Illness
  • Illness in the family
  • Quarantine of the home - see updated health department guidelines at COVID-19 Portal (columbus.gov)
  • Death of a relative - 3 days max, 5 days for out of state travel
  • Observation of Religious holiday (Eid, Yom Kippur, etc)

Please give or email Doctor visit excuses to Ms. Goins, the attendance secretary, when the student returns to school.

Is Your Child Absent from School?

If your child is unable to attend school email or call the attendance line and leave a message at 614-365-5491 by 9:30 a.m.

Email Attendance

Tardies

Absences are calculated by minutes, so each minute a student is late for class counts towards hours of school missed.

As of September 30, 2025, Ohio law defines a “chronically absent” student as “missing at least ten per cent of the minimum number of hours required in the school year”. The minimum number of hours referenced are also defined in Ohio law. Time missed from school for any reason, including excused and unexcused absences, will contribute to chronic absenteeism. Students only need to miss 2-3 days per month to be chronically absent by the end of the year.

Ohio law defines that a “habitual truant” is determined by certain thresholds of unexcused absences only: 

a. 30 or more consecutive hours (approximately 5 school days) 

b. 42 or more hours per month (approximately 7 school days) 

c. 72 or more hours per year (approximately 12 school days)