• Your child's education is very important to us at Neabsco. Please be mindful of late arrivals and early departures during the school day.  Students should be attending school on time every day. 
• When a student will be absent, notification should be provided to the school before or at the start of the school day, when possible.
• To excuse an absence, written or electronic communication citing the reason(s) for the absence must be provided to the school no more than five school days following the date of the absence. 

How to report an absence

• Absences can be reported in ParentVUE the same day of the absence.
• If your child will be absent or late to school, please email the office mailbox at  [email protected] by 10 AM or call the school to speak to someone in the office at 703-670-2147 in order to avoid an email/call about your child's absence.
  If your child has a doctor’s appointment, please schedule it early in the day or late.  If you cannot avoid a midday appointment, bring the child back to school.  Attending school is a requirement and an expectation for all students. 

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  When emailing, messaging, or calling, please include: 

  • Child's full name, teacher, reason for absence or delayed arrival to school.  Leave your full name and contact number.  You can call the school's phone number at 703-670-2147.
  • You can also email the School Attendance Secretary directly, Ms. Evelina Dias at [email protected] to report student attendance or the School Registrar, Ms. Jessica Alfaro (Spanish) [email protected]  

• Students who are not in their classroom by 9:20 a.m. will be marked tardy.
• A student's tardy will be recorded as excused or unexcused based on whether the reason for the late arrival meets the excused or unexcused absence criteria outlined in the PWCS Attendance Guidelines.

How to report an excused tardy

• If your child will be late to school, please email the office mailbox at  [email protected] by 10 AM or call the school to speak to someone in the office at 703-670-2147 in order to avoid an email/call about your child's absence.
  If your child has a doctor’s appointment, please schedule it early in the day or late.  If you cannot avoid a midday appointment, bring the child back to school.  Attending school is a requirement and an expectation for all students. 

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  When emailing, messaging, or calling, please include: 

  • Child's full name, teacher, reason for absence or delayed arrival to school.  Leave your full name and contact number.  You can call the school's phone number at 703-670-2147.
  • You can also email the School Attendance Secretary directly, Ms. Evelina Dias at [email protected] to report student attendance or the School Registrar, Ms. Jessica Alfaro (Spanish) [email protected]  

• No early dismissal of students will be allowed after 3:00 p.m.

• If you need to pick up your child for any reason before dismissal time of 4:00pm, you should email or call the office, message teachers using School Status and arrive at school no later than 3:00 PM.  Requests for dismissal after 3pm will not be allowed.  It is important for the safety and security of the students that early dismissals do not interrupt the daily dismissal process. 

  • Changes in dismissal for the end of the school day must be made by 3:00 PM, no exceptions. 

   

• Student absences that will not be excused – 

  • We have had a lot of requests to the principal and office that students are leaving the country for trips, visits, and other reasons.  Unless there is a death in the family, out-of-country trips will not be excused.   
  • Students missing weeks of school count against our school accreditation data.  Students that have missed 15 days will be unenrolled and upon return to the US, families must reregister students for school.  You can email the principal at [email protected], but please know that only extenuating circumstances will be approved. 
  • If you keep your child home because another sibling or family member in the household is sick, this is also not excused.  Students should be attending school each day, no exceptions. 

    

  Student absences that will be excused with the appropriate documentation - 

  • If a student is sick, please take them to the doctor and provide the school with a doctor’s note. 
  • If you need to take them to an appointment, please make the appointment first or at the end of the day to minimize missing too much school. Please bring the office a note to excuse the absence. 
  • Family emergency.
  • If you are unsure whether you should bring your child to school, please call and speak with the school nurse so she can advise on what to do to support your child’s symptoms.