• Students must attend 240 minutes of instructional time each day. Students should attend 1st period at the end of each day they are tardy to make up anytime that has been missed.
• Lunch, transitions, and study hall do NOT count as instructional time.
• 60 minute study hall for students needing extra help.
• Lunch must be eaten in the student break room or on the patio. Students are not allowed to leave the AIM Center High School campus for lunch.

A court of law may also impose penalties against both the student and his or her parents if a school-aged student is deliberately not attending school. A complaint against the parent may be filed in court if the student:

• Is absent from school on ten or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the same school year, or
• Is absent on three or more days or parts of days within a four-week period.

• A personal illness with documentation signed by a parent or guardian (up to and including the sixth absence), school nurse, doctor, or other health care official when the student is absent for the entire day (the parent of a student cannot serve as both parent and health care official).
• Death in the immediate family. Immediate family shall include parents, grandparents,and sibling (both natural and step). A three-day absence shall be allowed.Visitation to a college will be an excused absence if prior approval was obtained and the documentation is completed and signed in accordance with policy.Court proceedings (other than for truancy filings) with supporting documentation signed by the court.Inclement weather conditions that can be validated by District officials.All student suspensions.
• All absences covered under the Education Code.

• After a student has accrued six absences (both excused and unexcused), all future absences must be accompanied by written documentation from a doctor or other health official (the parent/guardian of a student cannot serve as both parent and health care official).
• Documentation to excuse an absence must be provided within three school days from the last consecutive absence.All absences are coded unexcused until acceptable documentation is provided that meets District guidelines for the absence to be excused.All documentation is to be turned into the registrar’s office.District guidelines will be used in determining if an absence is excused or unexcused.All permits and admits that do not have accompanying documentation shall be considered unexcused.All permits, admits and absence notes shall be submitted to the attendance office on a daily basis.Attendance personnel shall key all excused absence reasons in on the day they are submitted.Parents and/or students may appeal any unexcused absence to the campus principal within five school days from the date of the absence. The parent, guardian, or student is responsible for providing documentation to support the appeal. Documentation should include permits, notes, etc. The campus attendance committee will evaluate the absence reason and determine if it should be excused even if it does not meet the District’s excused boundaries.Attendance personnel or other personnel designated to change absences are not to change the absence reason if it does not fall with District policy (including the threeday limit) without the written consent of the campus attendance committee.Corrections to student absences or absence reasons shall have the final approval of the campus attendance committee.
• Situations or reasons outside the District guidelines should be classified as “unique”, and caution is to be exercised when approving any reason as excused if it falls outside District boundaries.

• For three unexcused absences, a letter shall be mailed to the parents.
• For six total absences, a letter shall be mailed to parents notifying them that all future absences will require a note from a doctor or other healthcare official.Report cards/progress reports denote the number of excused and unexcused absences.
• One documented conference or attempt to conference by the campus administrator responsible for attendance.