Florida Administrative Code › 6 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 6A - State Board of Education › Chapter 6A-1 - FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION › Section 6A-1.044 - Pupil Attendance Records

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Pupil
				attendance records shall be maintained for any student enrolled in public
				schools who is earning high school credit as provided in Section
				1003.436, F.S., who is funded as
				provided in Chapter 1011, F.S., and the Appropriations Act, or who is required
				to be in attendance by the compulsory attendance requirements as provided in
				Chapter 1003, F.S.
(2) The
				automated student attendance recordkeeping system as provided for in Rule
				6A-1.0014, F.A.C., shall be the
				attendance system as used in this rule.
(3) The presence, absence, or tardiness of
				each student shall be checked once each day at a time or times prescribed by
				the school board and all absent and tardy pupils shall be recorded daily in the
				Automated Student Attendance Recordkeeping System as described in the
				Department of Education Comprehensive Management Information Automated System
				Attendance Recordkeeping Handbook. The attendance recordkeeping system shall
				provide complete and accurate attendance data and shall make provision for
				maintaining auditable records for three (3) years or until applicable audits
				are completed. The attendance records shall also show the dates of a student's
				enrollment, withdrawal or re-entry in the school for the applicable year. Data
				shall not be recorded in temporary records, and then transferred at a later
				date to attendance records, except for the first ten (10) days of each school
				year.
(4) Attendance of all pupils
				must be maintained during the one hundred eighty (180) day school year or the
				equivalent and summer school when applicable as provided by law and rules of
				the State Board shall be required, except for absence due to illness, or as
				otherwise provided by law.
(5) For
				the purpose of compliance with this rule, a pupil shall be deemed to be in
				attendance if actually present at school, or away from school on a school day
				and engaged in an educational activity which constitutes a part of the
				school-approved instructional program for that pupil.
(6) For the purpose of recording attendance,
				attendance of pupils shall be reported as follows:
(a) Each pupil who is scheduled at a school
				center for the minimum required school day, and who is recorded as being
				present or tardy, shall be reported as present one (1) day.
(b) Each pupil who is scheduled at a school
				center for instructional purposes for a partial day, and at an area
				vocational-technical center, a vocational school, a community college, a
				university or another school center for a partial day shall be reported as
				present or absent for the appropriate portion of the day at each
				center.
(c) The attendance of a
				pupil who is assigned to an on-the-job instructional program which does not
				require his or her presence at a school center for on-the-job instructional
				purposes shall be reported as being in attendance when documented through the
				use of a time card to report actual days in attendance and a time card or work
				schedule to report instructional or work hours. Both the time card and schedule
				should be signed by the employer or instructional supervisor.
(d) The attendance of a pupil who is assigned
				to an instructional program which does not require his or her regular presence
				at a school center for instructional purposes shall be reported as present or
				absent at an assigned school center.