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ATTENDANCE

ATTENDANCE

    • Beginning with the 2022-23 school year, Louisiana law now requires all students that turn five (5) years of age by Sept. 30th to attend mandatory kindergarten classes.
    • The new requirement is expected to help improve academic performance by ensuring all children are attending school and learning basic skills at an early age. 
    • Except as provided by law, every child in the state is required by state law to attend public or private school from the child's fifth (5th) birthday until his/her eighteenth (18th) birthday, unless the child graduates prior to his/her eighteenth (18th) birthday.
    • All students are expected to attend school regularly and be on time for classes to benefit from the instructional program and develop habits of punctuality, self-discipline, and responsibility.  There is a direct relationship between poor attendance and class failure.  Students who have good attendance generally achieve higher grades, enjoy school more and are much more employable after leaving school.
    • Elementary and junior high students are required to attend one hundred sixty-seven (167) days per school year to receive credit in all full credit courses. 
    • Secondary students shall be required to be present a minimum of one hundred sixty-seven (167) days per school year or a minimum of eighty-three and one-half (83.5) days, or the equivalent, per semester for schools operating on a semester, block schedule basis, to be eligible to receive credit for courses taken.