In Otter News 10/24/25

10/24 - Middle School Fall Dance (6:00 - 8:00)

10/30 - OV Picture Retake Day (see below)

10/31 - End of Quarter 1 and Early Release Day (students dismissed at 11:55)

11/13 - Middle School Family/Teacher Conferences (3:30 - 7:30)

11/19 - Middle School Family/Teacher Conferences (3:30 - 7:00)

11/20 - 11/23 - Fall Musical (Annie)

11/26 - 11/30 - Thanksgiving Break

Please note that Quarter 1 ends Friday, October 31. Please make sure your student is aware of their grades and has a plan to improve low grades prior to the end of the quarter.

Report cards will be sent out via email on or around November 15.

Middle school conferences will take place on 11/13 and 11/19. We will have appointments live early next week to book. Please view the sign-up instructions below and consider signing up for a conference. Please note that in 7th grade, core teachers conference in pairs of two. Ms. Dawson and Mr. Weber conference with families together, and Mr. Hunter and Ms. Watters conference together.

Please contact Katie Davis with any questions about signing up for conferences.

Thanks to all of our students, staff, and families for their excellent work around attendance thus far. Our daily attendance rate is approximately 94%, which is excellent. Please continue to prioritize having your student in school every day!

A few reminders about attendance:

• Parents and caregivers may excuse students from school for illness with a phone call only until the student has reached 10 days of total absence (regardless of reason). Once you have reached 10 days of absence, absences will be recorded as unexcused UNLESS excused by the school nurse, the principal, or a physician.
• The school day starts promptly at 8:00, and students arriving after that time are considered tardy. If a student has legitimate grounds for being tardy, communicate details to the main office so that we may excuse the tardies. Students will receive consequences if they accumulate more than 3 tardies to a single class, including first block.
• The standard for being "on track" in terms of attendance is that students attend 95% of school days. Over the course of our school year, this translates to 7 days of absence or less.

With several different conversations happening about the future of our district, the district will be hosting community forums to get input on various changes being considered. Please consider attending and advising the board and administration on where we need to go as a district!