Punctuality is essential for successful student performance. Students who are not in their seats when the bell rings will be marked tardy.
TK-5th Grade Students
Excessive tardiness in the elementary grades will result in a meeting with parents to discuss an action plan for improvement, as children this age rely on their parents to ensure that they arrive at school on time and ready for class.
6th Grade Students – 1st Period Tardies
In the interest of student success, students need to arrive at school no later than 8:10 am for their 8:15 am class. If students are routinely late for 1st period, a parent meeting will be set up to develop a plan for prompt arrival at school. In order to prepare students for Upper Campus, at the start of 2nd semester, tardies will be handled following 7th-12th grade student Tardy Consequences.
7th-12 Grade Students – 1st Period Tardies
In the interest of student success, students need to arrive at school by 7:55 am for their 8:00 am class. If students are routinely late for 1st period, a parent meeting will be set up to develop a plan for prompt arrival at school.
Tardy Consequences
For upper campus students (and sixth grade students during the second semester), the consequences for excessive tardies are as follows:
- Every third tardy in a particular class will count as an absence
- At the sixth tardy per semester in all classes, the student will serve 1 day of lunch detention.
- At the twelfth tardy per semester in all classes, the student will serve 3 days of lunch detention.
- At the fifteenth tardy for the semester, the student will serve 5 days of lunch detention and a meeting will be required with parents.
- A tardy longer than 15 minutes will also be recorded as an absence.
