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How to Report Absences

Reporting Absences

If a student is absent during the school year, there are 3 ways parents/guardians can clear the absence:

  • Option 1 (preferred and fastest method): Email  mlkattendance@riversideunified.org.
  • Option 2: Students may bring a note to the Attendance office on the day of returning to school. (The note must have the required information listed below).
  • Option 3: Leave a message at (951) 789-5690. 

 

For all options, parents/guardians must provide the following information:

1. Full name (spell last name clearly) and ID number

2. Grade level of student

3. Dates of student absence

4. Reason for absence

5. Name of person reporting absence

All absences must be cleared within 5 school days.

 

Students must have absences cleared within five (5) days of their return to school or their absence will be marked as a truancy. Allowing students to complete make up work and tests for unexcused absences is at teacher discretion. Additionally, disciplinary consequences, teacher or office issued, may be given to those students deemed truant. 

 

After 18 class periods of unexcused absences, RUSD mails a letter home notifying parents/guardians of the need to attend a School Attendance Review Team (SART) meeting at Martin Luther King High School. Students can be placed on attendance contracts at these meetings.

 

Students with excessive absences will face consequences which can include exclusion from extracurricular activities (field trips, dances, sports and other school-sponsored events), detention, Saturday school, or placement in an alternative educational setting.