Students who miss more than 9 days in any given semester class may lose credit for that class due to excessive absences, regardless of whether the absences were excused or not. If your child's excessive absences include days missed due to a quarantine documented by the nurse, those absences will be waived from the 9 day limit.

Your child's attendance is posted in ParentVue. A letter alerting you to a potential loss of credit is posted in ParentVue when your child reaches 6, 9, and 10 absences in each class. This is your official notification of excessive absences, so please check ParentVue often to monitor your student's attendance. Students can make-up a portion of missed time by attending extended day.

If a student must be absent, please email or bring a note to our attendance secretary (nancy .manning@cpschools.com) so we can code the absence appropriately.

Along with your student's high school, Dr. Collier, Assistant Principal, should be notified in advance about trips, vacations, and other lengthy unexcused absences to ensure student progress in class. Please email or send a note to karin.collier@cpschools.com explaining the absence prior to the absence.

The Chesapeake School Board has defined an excused absence to include any of the following: Sickness of a student, medical appointments, severe illness or death in the family, exposure to contagious disease, religious holidays, or extenuating circumstances such as fire, accident, or extremely inclement weather. Absences other than those listed above will be recorded as unexcused absences.