Attendance Procedures

It is the responsibility of the parents or guardians to contact the attendance office and state the reason for your child's absence. Only parents, guardians, or a person on the student’s FERPA list are able to excuse an absence, tardy, or release a student from school. For your convenience a phone answering machine will be in operation 24 hours 7 days a week. Please call before 7:10 a.m. if your child will be absent from school. The attendance office number is 816-359-4211.

Students unaccounted for will be placed on a telephone call list. The attendance office will contact those parents or guardians on the same day of the absence either by manual or an automated calling system. The automated message will explain the absentee situation and request parental assistance. For partial day absences, parents or guardians may view the student’s attendance on Infinite Campus to identify which classes have been marked absent. 

If the absences have not been excused by a parent or guardian within 48 hours.

When requesting an early release, please call as early as possible in the morning. If you are unable to call in the morning, we ask that a minimum of 10 minutes is allowed for ample time to locate your student.  Guardians will need to come into the building to show proper ID and get the student signed out of our system.

There are many occasions when the attendance office experiences a high volume of calls. If you reach our voicemail, please do not hang up and call again. Leaving a message will keep your place in line and will allow us to assist you more quickly. Voice messages receive priority over incoming calls. 

The following information will help when you call the attendance number, 816-359-4211, to report an absence: 

1. Your name and relationship to the student 
2. Student's name and spelling of last name 
3. Grade of student 
4. Reason for absence 
5. Date of absence 

Personal items (lunch money, clothes, homework, etc.) needed during the day need to be dropped off by a parent/guardian, person on FERPA list, or listed in the student’s Infinite Campus. If food is being dropped off it needs to be a parent/guardian or person on FERPA list only.