Attendance

Please utilize the online absence reporting system found in your Parent Portal in Infinite Campus to report your student's absence. Please watch this video or download this guide for information on how to schedule an absence for your student. In an effort to ensure accurate daily attendance counts, please be sure to report student absences as soon as possible via the Parent Portal of Infinite Campus. 

If you cannot remember your password, please follow the ‘forgot password’ link on the Infinite Campus parent portal page. If you are having any additional issues logging in, please contact our Data Processing team for assistance. For other attendance-related issues, please call 847-415-4000. 

Please Note

• Absences may only be reported by a parent or guardian.
• If unable to participate in Physical Education, please contact the nurses@d125.org.

Partial Day Absence

Please follow the above procedure. All late arrivals and early departures must be conducted via the attendance office in Room 5024 or 2416 via the sign in/out procedures. Any student arriving late or leaving early MUST visit an attendance office. Additionally, students will be required to scan their ID’s in order to leave and re-enter the building.

Full Day Absences

Please follow the above procedure. Students who have been reported ill may not come to campus for any reason that day.

Pre-Arranged Absence

Please follow the above procedure and make arrangements with your student’s teachers.

Tech Campus Absence

Please follow the above procedure for Stevenson AND call the Lake County Tech Campus at 847-223-6681.

How is chronic absenteeism define?

• According to the Illinois State Board of Education, a student is considered chronically absent when they miss 18 or more days of school (10%) over the course of the school year. ISBE requires that absences include both unexcused and/or excused absences.  

What is Stevenson doing to partner with families on student attendance?

• Because attendance matters, we want to continue partnering with families and reaching out early when concerns begin to emerge so we can work together to support students before patterns become more significant. 

  As part of our ongoing efforts to re-engage families on this issue, we have implemented a series of communications so parents are aware of their student’s unique attendance rate. Our SSTs continue to proactively contact families in response to “early warning signs” of chronic absenteeism. We also have a policy that ties attendance rates to privileges, including senior year parking on campus.

If I report an absence for my student, does that automatically mean the absence is excused?

• No, ISBE has a defined list of excused absences that we must adopt.

How are partial day absences calculated?

• Six class periods are treated as the equivalent of one full day of absence.

What does or does not count toward my student's attendance rate?

• School-directed activities (ie, field trips) generally do not count toward absence totals, with certain exceptions (ie, out-of-school suspensions). Medically documented absences are included in attendance totals, with exceptions considered in specific circumstances.

Are medically documented absences included in a student's chronic absence rate?

• Extreme cases of prolonged illness and/or injury will be considered on the case-by-case basis.

Is the attendance rate derived from total attendance for the current school year or cumulatively over my student's high school career?

• When a parent logs into Infinite Campus to check a student's attendance rate, the data shown is reflective of that particular school year — not cumulative since freshman year. A student's attendance rate is updated in realtime and can be found via the Infinite Campus parent portal anytime.