DCSD Attendance

• Please refer to the updated CDE document on "How Sick is Too Sick?" The Colorado Department of Public Health has revised its guidance on this topic. CDE encourages districts and communities to consult with health professionals within the district and schools to create updated guidance and communication. They should also discuss how disease prevention measures can reduce the spread of illness and enhance attendance. Available in English and Spanish versions of the CDPHE guidance.

Looking for a quick way to track attendance? Try the Attendance Register Report. The Attendance Register Report summarizes student attendance for a selected date, date range or term based on either student daily attendance or course section attendance

• To be in compliance with State Board rule 1-CCR-301-1 statute, when you are end-dating or exiting a student for any reason, please use the last day of attendance as the end date. In reviewing district exit status reports, several schools are out of compliance and must be corrected as soon as possible.

Our next Attendance Staff Q & A with Lisa will be on April 16th

from 2-4 at the Legacy Campus in RM 241

• Tips for Improving Immigrant and EL Student Attendance During Increased Immigration Enforcement

• Classroom Interruptions Add Up Quickly to Lost Learning Time

• Updated Research on Tutoring as a School Attendance Improvement Tool

• Individualized tutoring can combat chronic absenteeism

Statewide data collections on attendance provide broad measures of student engagement. This includes levels of excused and unexcused absences and allows for analysis of engagement trends over time, across grade levels, and student groups. These measures are reported at the school, district, and state levels.

One page summary - 2023-24 school year

Data spreadsheets: CDE publishes spreadsheets annually that include:

• Statewide and districtwide summary data on rates of chronic absenteeism, truancy counts, and habitual truant counts.
• Statewide summaries of chronic absenteeism that include disaggregation by grade level, individual student groups, and race/ethnicity.

CDE has introduced a new goal-setting tool to help plan and monitor the state's aim to reduce chronic absenteeism by 50%. With this dashboard, you can view attendance data at the state, district, and school levels, adjust the goals you want to set, and track progress over the past two years. CDE hopes this dashboard will assist you in setting and tracking your own attendance goals. Resources and tools to support your work with the dashboard will be available in early 2025, but in the meantime, please feel free to explore!

• IC Generated Attendance Letters

• Elementary Care and Concern Letters

• Elementary Exhibit A

• Secondary Exhibit A

• Exhibit B; All Levels

Email: lmdelapena@dcsdk12.org
Website: DCSD Attendance
Location: 373 Inverness Parkway, Englewood, CO, USA
Phone: 303-387-9636