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Bingham High School Attendance Policy

2025-2026

 

Students are expected to attend each class from bell to bell. Students who attend consistently best position themselves for academic and professional success, and also become eligible for

  • Perfect attendance recognition/activity
  • Entry into a quarterly drawing for Bingham gear and punch cards for The Mine.
  • Entry into a quarterly drawing for free dance admission, free parking passes, and designated parking spots. 

 

Students are allowed no more than 3 tardies (T) or 2 unexcused absences (W/A/U). Any truancy will result in an automatic attendance flag. If a student reaches a fourth tardy or a third unexcused absence, their attendance will be flagged. When a student must miss school for a legitimate reason, parents or guardians must call the attendance office within five days to excuse the absence. After five days, parents will need to work with the student’s assistant principal to discuss the possible excusal of the absence(s). Tardies (T) and Way Lates (W) may not be excused. Parents may excuse one late check-in per day.  

 

10% of a student’s overall academic grade will be correlated to attendance. 

  • Students who meet the standard expected of them will retain 10% of the course grade in the attendance category for each class. 
  • Students who do not meet the standard expected of them will lose 10% of the course grade in each class and be subject to a tiered system of interventions and consequences to encourage the student to improve their attendance and remediate lost class time.

 

Tiered System to Remediate Inconsistent Attendance: 

 

Tier 1:  Student-Driven Remediation (Primary Intervention)

If a student receives a flag (°) next to their grade during the quarter caused by an attendance violation, the student may clear that flag through the following courses of action:

 

  • Completing, at the teacher’s invitation, an agreement form with the teacher in whose class they received a flag. 
  • Attending 1 hour of Friday Personalized Learning Time in the class with the attendance flag. 
  • Attending 1 hour of Attendance School. 

 

By choosing one of these options above, it will clear either 3 tardies (T), 1 unexcused absence (W/U/A), or 1 truancy (Z) in one class. Students may need to attend or do multiple courses of action to clear attendance violations. For example, if a student has accumulated seven tardies in a single class, they will need to complete two sessions from the intervention options listed above. 

 

Although attending one of the primary interventions above may clear a truancy from the attendance, each individual teacher has, at their discretion, the option to accept or not accept work missed because of a truancy. 

 

Grade Transmittal Day is the last day to remediate attendance for that quarter. For the 4th quarter, the day will be on Graduation Practice Day.

 

Any student representing Bingham High School through athletics, arts, or academics who does not attend school on the day of their competition/event (is marked unexcused absent (A) or truant (Z)) will not be permitted to participate in that event. 

 

Once a student has remediated their attendance,  the flag (°) will be removed, and they will retain 10% of the course grade in the attendance category for each class they have remediated.

 

Tier 2: Attendance Probation (Targeted Intervention)

Students who do not meet the attendance standard and/or do not remediate their attendance on their own may be placed on attendance probation at the beginning of the next quarter. While on attendance probation, students will work with an attendance coordinator or administrator on an attendance agreement form to improve their attendance. Parents will also receive a communication indicating that the student has been placed on attendance probation. Students will be elevated to a Tier 2 intervention if: 

 

  • They have three or more unresolved attendance flags at the end of the quarter
  • A second truancy
  • When a teacher, in cooperation with the student’s administrator, recognizes a consistent pattern of nonattendance. 

 

While on attendance probation, students will work to complete an agreement form that will include a requirement that the student will adhere to the Bingham Attendance Policy and not receive any attendance flags for the current quarter while on probation, and may include:

  • Assigned PLT Time
  • An attendance/grade tracker*
  • ISS 
  • Ineligibility to represent Bingham in an extracurricular competition 
  • Ineligibility for participation in the parking lottery as a junior and/or exclusion from parking permit opportunities as a senior 
  • Ineligibility for school dances
  • OSS

 

Tier 3A:  Parent / Student / Admin Meeting  (Intensive and Individualized)  Students who continue to have problems with attendance after an individualized agreement form will be required to attend a meeting with an administrator and a parent to identify the cause of the behavior and cooperatively develop a plan to improve the student’s attendance. 

  • Employ additional scaffolds and consequences as necessary to improve attendance, which may include but not be limited to consequences outlined in tier 1, or tier 2, or participation in extracurriculars. 

 

Tier 3B: Team MTSS Meeting  (Intensive and Individualized) Students who do not improve their attendance will attend an MTSS meeting with their parents, teachers, counselor, and administrator to build a plan for the student that is in the best interest of the student and which may include options outside of Bingham High School. Students may not be allowed to participate in the Bingham High School graduation ceremony (in which case, students will receive their diplomas via mail).