Help Encourage Good Attendance Habits

• Make education a family priority.
• Build your child’s self-confidence as a student by recognizing when he or she does well in school.
• Help your child develop good study and work habits.
• Schedule a daily period of home study time.
• Help with homework when needed.
• Help your child develop and achieve academic goals.
• Meet your child ’s teachers and other school personnel.
• Get to know your child ’s friends and classmates. Find ways to discuss issues, subjects and course materials being covered at school.
• Don’t let your child risk his or her future; make sure he or she attends school every day!

 

How DoYou Ensure Your Child Does Not Miss Too Much School?

 

• Stay in constant communication with your child's campus and make sure they know when absences are necessary for your child.  There are many resources the campus can refer to you that may assist families in crisis.
   
• When scheduling appointments with health care providers, choose a time that will allow your child to begin or end their day at school.  A student who has an appointment with a health care provider but attends school for a part of that same day or class will receive credit for attending the whole day or class.
   
• Review Georgetown ISD’s school calendar  and whenever possible schedule health care appointments and family trips/vacations before or after school, or during school breaks or holidays. 
   
• Switch between morning and afternoon appointments so that your child doesn’t miss the same class all the time.
   
• Attend tutoring sessions anytime instructional time is lost due to attendance.
   

Please email all absence notes to the addresses listed below. To ensure your student’s absence is recorded correctly, each note must include:

• Student’s full legal name

• Student ID# and grade

• Date(s) of absence

• Reason for absence

• Parent/guardian signature (handwritten, not typed)

Please note:  An absence note is required each time your child is absent from school.  This note, and any required documentation must be turned in within 48 hours of the student's return to school.

Georgetown High School ghsattendance@georgetownisd.org	East View High School attendanceevhs@georgetownisd.org
Richarte High School rhsattendance@georgetownisd.org	Georgetown Alternative Placement attendancegap@georgetownisd.org
Benold Middle School attendancebms@georgetownisd.org	Forbes Middle School attendancefms@georgetownisd.org
Tippit Middle School attendancetms@georgetownisd.org	Wagner Middle School attendancewms@georgetownisd.org
Ford Elementary attendanceford@georgetownisd.org	Frost Elementary attendancefrost@georgetownisd.org
McCoy Elementary attendancemccoy@georgetownisd.org	Mitchell Elementary attendancemitchell@georgetownisd.org
San Gabriel Elementary attendancesangabriel@georgetownisd.org	Village Elementary attendancevillage@georgetownisd.org
Williams Elementary attendancewilliams@georgetownisd.org	Wolf Ranch Elementary attendancewre@georgetownisd.org
Purl Elementary purlattendance@georgetownisd.org	Carver Elementary attendancecarver@georgetownisd.org
Cooper Elementary attendancecooper@georgetownisd.org

 

• Establish and stick to the basic routines (early bedtime, set wake up time, laying out outfits, etc.) that will allow your child to develop a habit of on time attendance.

• Consistently talk to your child about why going to school every day is important.  Help your child get excited about going to school.

• Do not allow your child to stay home unless they have a contagious illness or are too sick to be comfortable.  Sometimes your child may not feel well, but are not sick enough to stay home.

• Come up with a "plan B" for who you and your family can rely on to help get your child to school when something comes up.

• Schedule doctor, dentist, or other health care appointments on early release days, school holidays, or at the beginning or end of the school day.

• Schedule vacations or other non-school related activities during days when students are not scheduled to attend school.

• If your family runs into personal setbacks (car trouble, loss of income, divorce, family illness, etc.) or anything that will affect how your family functions, reach out to the school and ask for help. The campus can help you connect with needed resources.

• Stay involved and in constant communication with your child's school.  Read all information that is sent home with your child.

• When your child is absent, work with teachers to provide your child with additional opportunities to learn and make-up work.

• Follow district policy for reporting absences and submitting absence documentation within 2 school days of your child's return to school.

• Monitor your child's attendance through Skyward Family Access Center.  If an absence is marked incorrectly, contact the campus attendance clerk.