• Attendance Hotline
    606-4812, ext. 2333

    Regular attendance and school work are necessary for students to benefit from their educational experience. Students with poor attendance generally have poor achievement and grades. Students are expected to be in class, on time, daily. Students with unexcused absences or tardies lose extra curricular privileges and must make up time missed. The State of California and the Livermore School District () do not provide for any tardy to be excused. Parents are required to be involved in student intervention for poor attendance.

    To excuse an absence, a student must, within three school days of an absence, bring a note, signed by a parent, to the Attendance Office, stating the dates absent, and the reason for the absence (student's and parent's last name must be on the note). Parents may also call (925) 606-4812, ext. 2333 to excuse absences giving the same information. The Attendance Office staff will notify teachers of excused absences. Excused absences shall be for illness, medical appointments, funerals, quarantine, jury duty, court appearance, observance of religious holiday, attending a religious retreat, caretaking of a pupil's sick child, and employment conferences. Family trips, vacations, babysitting, and other personal business are not excused absences.

    In order to attend dances, students may have no more than three unexcused absences within the announced time period before a dance.

    Absences not cleared within three school days automatically become unexcused absences, or cuts. Students absent without a valid excuse for more than three days in one school year are classified as truant. Students who are more than 30 minutes tardy on three or more school days in more than one school year without a valid reason are also classified as truant.

     
    Students needing to leave campus during the school day must sign out through the
    Attendance Office with a parent note or phone call in order for the absence to be excused.
    FAILURE TO SIGN OUT MAKES AN ABSENCE UNEXCUSED!

    Unexcused Absence Policy

    School District policy permits teachers to lower a grade by 1/3 for each unexcused absence. This means that three unexcused absences can result in a student's grade dropping one full grade. Attendance and success in school go hand in hand. Parents are asked to work closely with their students to insure success in school.

    Leaving Campus

    Livermore High School is a closed campus. This means that students may not leave campus during the school day unless

    1) they have been signed out at the Attendance Office

    or

    2) they are a senior with privileges to leave campus during lunchtime

    Seniors will have this privilege depending on their prior reporting period grades and it may be revoked due to disciplinary, grades, attendance issues, and/or moving violations received while off campus during lunchtime. Students who leave without signing out and miss classes will be marked cut--even if they leave for legitimate reasons (e.g., a doctor's appointment).

    Tardies


    Students are required to be in class when the bell rings.  If the student is not, then a tardy is recorded in the attendance system.  If you are more than 30 minutes late to a class, you will be given an unexcused absence.  Teachers may establish their own attendance policies, and have the right to lower the students grade for each tardy.