Reporting an Absence:

All day absences can be reported by email or phone. Emails should be sent to Mr. Brennan Matzinger, bmmatzin@volusia.k12.fl.us.  To leave a message via phone, please call 386-968-0013 ext 46264. Voice messages will be updated within 48 hours. If absences have not been corrected after 48 hours, please call the front office. If you have questions regarding your student’s attendance, please call the main office or email the attendance clerk. Students can drop off notes in the front office if needed.

Check out Procedure for Early Dismissal:

For pre-arranged checkouts (forms available in front office & on website) please send completed check out form to the front office 24 hours prior to checkout. Click Here

If you do not have the form, please send a signed note to the front office with the following information:

1.     Students name & alpha code

2.     Reason for dismissal

3.     Time student needs to be released

4.     Parent signature

5.     Phone number where parent can be reached to verify early dismissal

Students need to drop off the form/note in the front office 24 hours in advance. Forms/notes will be called for confirmation. After confirmation with the parent, a checkout pass will be delivered to the student.

 

When the checkout is not planned in advance and the parent or guardian is coming on to campus to pick up the student, please follow this process:

1.     Park in visitor parking & come into the main office with ID.

2.     Check the student out on the checkout sheet with their alpha code, name, signature & relation to the student.

3.     We will call the student to the front office via intercom once ID has been verified.

 

When the checkout is not planned in advance and the student is a driver:

1.     The parent or guardian must call the school at 386-968-0013 and press 0 for the front office. Checkouts will not be entered via voicemail messages.

2.     Once parent/guardian verification is complete, the student will be called to the front office to check out.

3.     If the student does not come to the front office to sign themselves out, their attendance will not be corrected.

 

If the student returns to campus after an appointment, they must check back in through the main office. The parent or guardian does not need to come in to check them back in. 

 

Check out ends 30 minutes before the end of the school day. Students will not be called from class after this time.

 

LEAVING SCHOOL GROUNDS

No student is permitted to leave the school grounds during class hours unless they have been appropriately checked out through the main office. Students must enter and exit the campus through authorized entry and exit gates. Students must show ID when entering and exiting school.

Only students who have a lunch out pass may leave during lunch time. Students who do not have a lunch out pass and leave campus without permission will be subject to the VCS code of student conduct. Students who have a lunch out pass who continually arrive late from lunch are subject to having their pass revoked.