Attendance Policy

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations insists on 75% attendance each academic year. The school recommends a minimum of 85% annual attendance in all the classes. As an incentive the school awards, prizes and certificates to students who secure 100% attendance during the year. Special recognition is given to the students of Class XII who were never absent during their entire school life.

If classes are held on the days of tests or exams, students will not be permitted to miss the classes. Those who are not fit enough to attend classes should not be sent to write tests or examinations. SMS alerts are sent to the parents of senior school students if they are absent when attendance is marked. Students with partial attendance (less than full day absence) will not be considered for 100% attendance prizes.

A student who is absent from school for 1-3 days gets the reason for the absence and the signature of the parent/ guardian entered on the appropriate page in the school diary. For longer absence from classes, i.e. more than three days, prior permission from the relevant Vice Principal is required in all foreseeable matters. Long absence due to prolonged illness or other serious reasons are to be notified, in writing with authenticating documents, promptly to the Vice Principal. Normally students are not given permission to leave the school early for holidays, nor are holidays extended.

Students returning to school after suffering from an infectious or contagious disease should produce a doctor’s certificate permitting him/her to do so. The doctor should explicitly state that there is no danger of other students contracting the illness.

Students who absent themselves from school on the days prior to tests or examinations are liable for disciplinary action. Special penalties, not excluding monetary fines or curtailment of marks, may be imposed on the students who are absent on any of the five working days before tests or exams.

The students who remain absent from classes without the prior permission of the Vice Principal for more than ten working days immediately after vacations (Summer, Dusshera, Chhatth and Christmas) or fifteen days during the year will be presumed to have left the school. They are liable for removal from the roll. The student may be readmitted to the school if there is a vacancy in the class in which he/ she has been studying. For such readmission of a student the charges levied at the time of admission may be applicable. Repeated absence without leave, or unexplained absence will be taken very seriously.