You may send a note via your child's backpack, or email the school. Doctor's notes can be scanned and sent to the school as well. If your family is out of town for vacation, we appreciate the note but these absences are still marked unexcused.

Please attache all attendance notes in your Skyward parent portal or email KellyNorman@celinaisd.com

State law allows exemptions to the compulsory attendance requirements for the following activities and events, as long as the student makes up all work:

• Religious holy days;

• Required court appearances;

• Activities related to obtaining U.S. citizenship;

• Documented health-care appointments for the student or a child of the student, including absences related to autism services, if the student returns to school on the same day of the appointment and brings a note from the health-care provider;

• Absences resulting from a serious or life-threatening illness or related treatment that makes a student’s attendance infeasible, with certification by a physician;

• For students in the conservatorship of the state;

• An activity required under a court-ordered service plan; or

• Any other court-ordered activity provided it is not practicable to schedule the student’s participation in the activity outside of school hours. For children of military families, absences of up to five days will be excused for a student to visit a parent, stepparent, or legal guardian going to, on leave from, or returning from certain deployments.

Attendance notices are automatically generated by our attendance system after your child's 3rd absence and then again on the 8th absence. These notices are legal notices required to be mailed home even if all the absences are excused. The Texas Education Agency requires 90% attendance to earn credit and be promoted to the next grade. Receiving these notices is not an indication of retention or that your emails/notes were not received by the school. Feel free to call or email Mr. Austin Grant if you think there is a discrepancy in days marked absent.

Truancy letters are also generated for excessive tardies. Please remember that late arrivals cause your child to miss important beginning of the day procedures.

If your child accumulates 10 or more unexcused absences you may be required to attend truancy court.