Kim Simpson
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(713) 896-5003 |
(A - K)
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Nancy Vick
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(713) 896-3443 |
(L - Z)
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Attendance Office Policies
The attendance office is open from 7:00 until 4:00 each school day. Please call the attendance office prior to 9:00 a.m. each day your student will be absent or late to school at one of the numbers listed above. If your student is absent and you do not call in, you will be receiving a phone call from our automated phoone system stating our child was absent in one or more classes. The phone system will start calling at 3:30 PM. Please make sure that the school has your correct phone number.
You must send a note to the Attendance Office when your child returns to scholl after any absence or when late. This ote must be returned within three (3) days upon their return. If the Attendance office does not receive a note within the three (3) days, your child's absence will be unexcused. Three (3) unexcused absences will result in your child being referred to the court system for Truancy.
The note should contain the following information:
1. Student’s first and last name
2. Student’s grade level
3. Date(s) of absence or tardy
4. Reason for absence or tardy
5. Parent or Guardian signature
Leaving school during the school day
If a parent or guardian requests that a student leave before the end of the school day,
he/she must send a note to the Attendance Office before school stating:
1. The reason for leaving school
2. Time student needs to check out
3. Telephone number where the note may be verified.
When the student returns to school, he/she must bring a note from the parent/guardian or the doctor/dentist, if applicable.
1. Personal Illness |
2. Medical appointment (Doctor’s note needed upon return to school) |
3. Illness or death in the family |
4. Religious holy days (Prior approval needed from the principal) |
Arriving to school after 7:25 A.M.
Students entering the building from 7:25 a.m. – 7:40 a.m. will be recorded as tardy to school. These students need to sign in at the attendance office upon arrival to school. Each
student who accumulates 3 tardies will be counted as an unexucused absense for the class for which the student was tardy. Students entering the building after 7:40 a.m. will be recorded as absent for their first period.
Students are expected to be in class and ready for learning before the tardy bell rings. JVHS' bell schedule allows all students six minutes to move from one class to another. During that passing period, a two minute warning bell sounds. Students tardy to class will receive a tardy detention for the class period in which they are tardy. Every student who enters class after the class begins disrupts the learning process for everyone who arrived on time. We all must work to keep interruptions to a minimum.
When students miss part of a school day
Please be aware that in secondary schools, attendance is taken in every period. It is very important that students are in school all day; however, sometimes it is necessary for a student to miss part of a school day. When this happens, the student will be marked absent for the class period/periods missed. If a student misses more than the amount of state-mandated days in a particular class, he/she can lose credit for the periods missed. Students may be allowed to make up the time missed by staying after school or on Saturdays for detention.
