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Attendance

Every day that your student(s) is absent you are required to call/email in their absence to the main office (not just their teacher).

Steps for Reporting Your Student's Absence

All student absences must be cleared by parents as soon as possible, but not longer than three days. If your child is absent more than three days, please provide a doctor's note.

  1. Call or email Ponderosa Elementary School by 9:00 a.m. on the first day your child is absent
  2. Clearly and slowly state the following information:
  • Student's first and name
  • Teacher’s name and room number
  • Date(s) of absence
  • Reason for the absence
  • Caller’s name and relationship to child
  • Telephone number where you can be reached 

Keep your student at home if:

  • They don’t feel well
  • Have a fever above 100º within last 24 hours
  • Have vomited or had diarrhea within last 24 hours
  • Have a severe cough or cold symptoms

Contact

Gricelda Jimenez
Attendance Clerk
ponderosaattendance@scusd.net
(408) 423-4005

Types of Absences

Excused Absences:

Child is absent due to illness, quarantine, medical, dental or optometrical services rendered. Other absences require a written notice to the principal, such as observance of a religious holiday or ceremony, required appearance in court, or funeral service for a member of the immediate family.

Unexcused Absences:

All other absences shall be deemed as unexcused, such as going on a family trip, attending a wedding, not bringing your child to school because a parent was sick, keeping your child at home due to car trouble, or keeping your child at home due to oversleeping.

Appointments

While we discourage missing school for appointments, students may leave during school hours for medical, dental or emergency appointments.  We request a note from your doctor verifying the appointment upon returning to school. Parents or guardians picking up students for appointments must check the student out at the school office.  No student will be allowed to leave the campus unless he/she has been signed out by an authorized adult who is listed on the emergency card, brings a handwritten note from the parent, or unless the school is in receipt of a faxed permission slip.  Please sign your child back in on the office register upon their return to school.

Arrivals

Students may not arrive prior to 8:05 a.m., unless they are eating breakfast (beginning at 7:50 a.m.). Parents will accompany students to the gates upon arrival. Parents will not be allowed to wait on campus (inside gates) when they arrive at school. Students will be supervised when the gates open at 8:05 a.m.

Tardies

If your child is tardy, your child must check in at the office to obtain a tardy pass.