Attendance

Absences

Regular attendance plays an important role in student achievement. Each person between the ages of 6 and 18 years (not exempt under the provisions of Chapter 3 of the Ed. Code, commencing with Section 48400) is subject to compulsory full-time education.  Unless otherwise provided for in this code, a pupil shall not be enrolled for less than the minimum school-day established by law. (EC 48200, 48400: ne).

If your child has been ill the night before a school day, please keep him/her home for at least 24 hours.

If your child’s fever is 100+, you MUST keep him/her home from school until the child has been fever-free for 24 hours.

All absences must be cleared within 72 hours.  A note should accompany your child upon return to school.  If your child is absent or sent home during the day due to illness they will need to remain at home and should not attend any activity or functions being held at school that afternoon or evening. 

Tardiness

Learning to be punctual is an important personal habit to develop. Students who are late for class miss valuable instruction and unnecessarily interrupt their classes. All students arriving after 8:15am must report to the office for a late pass.  If students are habitually tardy (unexcused), parents will be notified and required to meet with school staff to remedy the problem. Continued problems will result in referral to the School Attendance Review Board (SARB) and a possible hearing with the Juvenile Justice Department.

Truancy

Under state regulations, a student absent three times without being excused or late three times in excess of thirty minutes is considered truant.  (Note: The state allows only medical/dental appointments and illness as excused tardies.) If the truancy is not corrected, referral will be made to the School Attendance Review Team (SART), and then if necessary to the Santa Clara Unified School District's School Attendance Review Board (SARB) and Truancy Court.  For children to receive the full benefit of their education at Sutter, it is necessary for them to be in school daily, and ready to work when class begins at 8:15 a.m.  Please help us to instill good habits in your child.

Appointments

Students are allowed to leave school during school hours for medical, dental or emergency appointments. However, for your child’s protection, no student will be allowed to leave school grounds without being signed out by his/her parent or guardian in the school office.

Arrivals

Students begin school at 8:15 am each day.  Children arriving on campus before 7:50 am for breakfast are expected to wait outside the yellow lines by the bike racks or the flagpole, as there is no adult supervision on the campus at that time.  Students may be on the playground following the 8:05 am bell.  At 8:10, a warning bell sounds for students to line up on the blacktop by their room number.  Students must be in line at the bell.  Any student arriving after 8:15 must stop in the office for a tardy slip. Students can be dropped off no earlier than 7:50 am.

Dismissals

TK students leave at 1:05 pm.  K-2 students are dismissed at 2:10 pm  and Gr. 3-5 at 2:35 pm daily except Wednesdays when  all students are dismissed at  1:21.  We expect students to leave the campus immediately following school, as there is no after school supervision.  The Safety Patrol is on duty from the time school is dismissed until approximately ten minutes later.