Every year our school team sets goals related to student attendance. This year our goal is to minimize the students who miss more than 10% of school days (18 days) throughout the entire school year. Sometimes families take vacation days when we are not on break. These days are considered unexcused, and can affect your child’s yearly attendance, grades, and school readiness. Because students may also get sick for some of the year, days missed for vacations add an additional barrier to learning. Further, teachers are not obligated to provide make-up work for unexcused absences. We are also encouraging teachers to use the comment section of the report card for open communication with families related to absences.
To help you with vacation planning, we want to share a list of the weekdays between now and the end of the school year that are holidays or break time. Hopefully you will plan family vacations during these days off and help your kids know school is important.
Thursday, October 3rd - Rosh Hashanah
Tuesday, November 5th – Election Day
November 25th-29th – Thanksgiving week off (vacation could be from 11/23-12/1), school back on 12/2.
December 23rd – January 1st – Winter Break (vacation could be from 12/21-1/1), school back on Jan 2nd.
Monday January 20th and Tuesday January 21st – MLK Day and semester break day
Monday, February 17th – President’s Day.
April 12th – 21st – Spring Break (vacation could be from 4/12-4/21), school back on April 22nd
Monday, May 26th – Memorial Day
