Attendance
Every Day Counts!
Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school—and themselves. Absences and tardiness impact the whole classroom. Parents: Making sure your student is in school and on time every day is the law.
Notification
Please send in documentation of student absences using the School Absence Form on the AISD website or complete a paper form (pick up in Front Office).
We, DO NOT accept phone calls or voicemail messages as documentation for a student's absence.
Angelica Vega, Attendance Specialist
Baldwin@austinisd.org | 512-841-8900 (office)
Please have medical offices submit documentation of your student’s visit to Baldwin@austinisd.org
Please allow up to 72 hours (3 business days) for attendance to be corrected.
Set up notifications for your student’s attendance and grades via Parent Self Serve.
Students attending family trips during scheduled school days will remain coded as an unexcused absence. Car problems, traffic, or oversleeping will not be considered as an excused absence or excused tardy.
A student is tardy if he/she is not with their homeroom teacher when the 7:40 bell rings. If you arrive late to school, your student will be required to come to the office for a tardy slip before going to class. A parent/guardian will be required to come into the office to sign their student in late.
What to do if your student must leave school early:
- When you arrive to Baldwin to pick up your student, please be prepared with your photo I.D. Your student will be called to the attendance office and provided with a permit to leave campus.
- Please do not plan to pick up your student from school 30 minutes prior to dismissal (ie 2:40 PM).
You must sign the student out in the office with your photo I.D. Students arriving or leaving for a medical appointment must bring a note from the doctor to excuse the absence/tardy.
For more information visit the district's attendance page.
Tardies: The tardy bell rings every day at 7:40am. Students are expected to be seated in their classrooms by 7:40am. This means that if the student/s is just arriving at 7:40am the student is considered tardy. Any students that arrive after 7:40am need to be checked in through the front office.
Illness: A student with a fever of 100.0 must be sent home and cannot return to school until the student has been fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication. If a student has been absent because of illness, a signed note from the parent stating that the student was ill must be turned in. If a student has been out more than 3 days because of illness the parent note must be accompanied by a doctor’s note/receipt, in order for the extra days to be excused.
Medical Appointment: When returning from a medical appointment, a signed note from the doctor is required. This ensures that the school receives funding from the state of Texas for the student when they were absent. In order for the school to receive this funding, the student must have attended school for part of the day on the day of the appointment.
Family Vacations and Out of Town Trips: School days missed due to family vacations, out of town trips, taking extra days to extend the weekend, and time taken off for non-AISD extracurricular activities will not be excused.
Notification of absences: An automated phone message or email will be sent to the primary contact of any student who is given an absence on the day the absence is recorded. On the third and tenth absence, the district’s central office automatically mails a letter to the residence of the parent of the student. Ten or more unexcused absences may result in the campus pursuing legal action.
For more information on attendance requirements, visit the district website.