Attendance

If a student is ill or there is another acceptable reason for the student not to attend school that day, a parent/guardian must report it to Powderhorn’s attendance line 303-982-0067.

If your student needs to be picked up early for an appointment, please come into the office to sign them out. Allow for extra time for staff to call your child down for dismissal.

If you would like your child to be dismissed to another adult or in a way different than usual (i.e., not taking the bus instead of taking the bus), please contact the Office to confirm those plans.

All schools will have attendance rules which incorporate Jeffco Public Schools’ attendance requirements as outlined in district policy. The law provides every child age six years on or before August 1 of each year and is under the age of seventeen years, except as provided for by C.R.S. 22-33-104 shall attend public school for at least the minimum required hours each school year. Please note there are a number of exceptions to these provisions that are contained in the statute and policy.

If a student is absent without a valid parent/guardian excuse (or in some instances, a written medical excuse from a medical source) the student shall be considered truant. A “habitual truant” shall be defined as a student of compulsory attendance age who has four days of unexcused absences from school in any one month or ten days of unexcused absences during any school year. Individual schools may determine what are accepted as valid reasons for excused absences, regardless of a parent/guardian excusing a student’s absence.

It is essential that students absent from school make up work missed. It is the responsibility of the student and the family to initiate requests for, and to pick up, make-up work on the day the student returns to class from an excused absence.

For additional information, please refer the Jeffco District Student/Family Handbook.