Absences - Lake Dallas High School

ATTENDANCE FAQs

Classroom attendance is tied to classroom success. When students are absent, they miss opportunities to learn, build friendships, and develop skills and attitudes needed to become good citizens. Lake Dallas ISD encourages students to be at school every day, be on time every day and stay all day.

Did you know?

Attendance raises a student’s chance of scoring well on exams and securing college admission, AND high school graduates earn 38% more than those who drop out, with college graduates bring in 140% more!

Your student is expected to be at school each and every day to comply with the state law for attendance. As their parent or legal guardian, you are required to comply with the law as well.

Please note that not all reasons for an absence or being tardy are allowed by the TEA and will not be excused by LDISD without proper documentation.

Attendance Board Policy

Compulsory Attendance Board Policy

Excused Reasons for Attendance
Submit an Absence

Excused Reasons for Attendance

Sick Days: If your child is out sick, and sees a doctor, please send a doctor’s note to excuse the absence. However, the district will excuse a total of three absences each semester from parent notes. A parent note can be submitted in writing to the campus or via email to the campus attendance clerk.
All parent notes provided to the campus attendance clerk will be as artifacts by the campus attendance committee in the rare occurrence a child becomes truant. [see FEC(Local) for more information] A parent note can be submitted in writing to the campus or via parent square to the campus attendance clerk.
Doctor Visits:
- If your child comes to school for part of the day, a doctor’s note is still needed.
Family Emergencies: Contact a campus administrator provide relevant information and/or documentation
Funerals (Immediate Family): Please provide the campus with documentation
Court Dates: Please provide the campus with documentation.
College Visits/Career Investigations (11th–12th Grade): Students can take up to 2 days to visit a college and 2 additional days for career investigation days to visit professional workplaces, please be sure to turn in documentation to excuse each absence
Religious Holidays: These are excused with documentation.
DMV Visits: Students age 15 and older can have one excused day with documentation.

Submit an Absence

All attendance notes should be uploaded by a parent/guardian in Skyward Family Access.

Login into your Family Access account, if you need help with your login and password please contact your campus receptionist.
Click attendance on the left hand side
Navigate to the top right and click on Absence request
Then click on Add Request in the next box beside the child’s name
Select the start date( the first day your child will not be at school) and end date( the last day your child will not be at school)
Select the appropriate reason
Enter a comment to aide in proper coding of your student’s attendance ex: doctors appt
Click Save
Email the attendance clerk at your student’s campus the appropriate documentation for your student’s absence.
Please allow 2-3 business days for this to be reflected in your student’s attendance coding