Attendance Policy for the 2024-25 School Year
We ask that if your student is late or absent, please call the main office at 718-432-4300 ext.1034 as soon as possible. If your student is/was absent, please submit your excuse (medical) notes to the main office.
Attendance is a required, legal record.
Our doors open daily at 7:30 for hot breakfast. ALL students MUST be in their first period class each day by 8:20 a.m. IN-Tech takes the daily (official) attendance by 8:30 a.m. during the first period. Any student who arrives at class after this time will be marked late or maybe marked absent for the day. Phone calls will be made after 9:30 a.m. each day for those students marked absent or late. Students who arrive late to school (without an excused lateness) or cuts class will receive detention on the same day (2:40 - 3:45).
A student who arrives late to school are counted as present for the day (this may take a day to reflect on the records). Being at school on time is important, but it is always better to come to school late than to miss the whole day. Schools may keep students who are late or cut class—or leave early—out of school activities or communal lunchtime.
-
A student who is marked present for the day but absent for a particular class is considered to have cut the class. Students must be in their assigned class unless a staff member has removed them from class for a specific reason (students should get documentation to support their class absence)
-
Families must pick up their students (grades 6-12) in the main office if they need to leave early. All students must be picked up by an approved guardian from the school.
-
Parents/Guardians must sign out at the Attendance Office
-
Students who are granted an early dismissal may not be on school property following their dismissal time without prior approval of the building administrator
IN-Tech will reach out to learn why students missed school and how to help. Parents must provide a
reason for absences. IN-Tech will follow-up and new outreach is required after ten missed days in a row,
and when students in pre-K through eighth grade miss any 20 days. Schools must have up-to-date phone numbers and addresses so they can reach families. Families make sure your phone numbers on your NYC Schools account and on Blue Cards are correct. We will continue to communicate with homes via mail, e-mail, backpack, phone calls, and our school app.
Early dismissals are for serious emergencies and should not occur on a daily or regular basis.
From CR A-210 - STANDARDS FOR ATTENDANCE PROGRAMS
The term parent as used in this regulation means the student’s parent or guardian or any person in a
parental or custodial relationship to the student. The definition of parent includes: birth or adoptive
parent, step-parent, legally appointed guardian, foster parent and “person in parental relation” to a child
attending school. The term “person in parental relation” refers to a person who has assumed the care of
a child because the child’s parents or guardians are not available, whether due to, among other things,
death, imprisonment, mental illness, living outside the state, or abandonment of the child.