Goals for the Attendance Plan

1. A school's response for this section should be in SMART format for improving attendance for each category reported in the data tables.
• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Realistic/Rewarding
• Timely
2. Address early grades at your school level (K & 1, 6th Grade, 9th Grade). Analyze school-wide data to determine needs at grade levels and times of year when challenges occur more often.

School attendance data are provided reporting percent of students with satisfactory attendance, at-risk attendance, chronic absenteeism, and severe chronic absenteeism. The two-year trend allows for comparison of attendance over time and an indication of how strategies implemented to improve attendance are working.

Satisfactory Attendance: According to attendance data retrieved from Data Warehouse, 30% of students who attended South Broward High School during the 2017-2018 school year had satisfactory attendance (missing 0 to 4.99 days). Satisfactory attendance decreased with matriculation from grades 9 through 12 and also decreased from semester 1 to 2 in all grade levels. The school's goal for the 2018-2019 school year is to increase satisfactory attendance by 5% by June 2019.

At-Risk Attendance: According to attendance data retrieved from Data Warehouse, 26% of students who attended South Broward High School during the 2017-2018 school year had at-risk attendance (missing 5 to 9.99 days). At-Risk attendance increased with matriculation from grades 9 through 12 and also increased from semester 1 to 2 in all grade levels. The school's goal for the 2018-2019 school year is to decrease at-risk attendance by 5% by June 2019.

Chronic Absenteeism: According to attendance data retrieved from Data Warehouse, 21% of students who attended South Broward High School during the 2017-2018 school year were chronically absent (missing 10 to 19.99 days). Chronic absenteeism increased with matriculation from grades 9 through 12 and also increased from semester 1 to 2 in all grade levels. The school's goal for the 2018-2019 school year is to decrease chronic absenteeism by 5% by June 2019.

Severe Chromic Absenteeism: According to attendance data retrieved from Data Warehouse, 15% of students who attended South Broward High School during the 2017-2018 school year were severely chronically absent (missing 20% or more days). The percentage of students who were severely chronically absent increased with matriculation from grades 9 through 12 and also increased from semester 1 to 2 in all grade levels. The school's goal for the 2018-2019 school year is to decrease severe chronic absenteeism by 5% by June 2019.

Tier 1 Strategies for Attendance

Tier 1 Strategies for Attendance - Address all five core ingredients. Tier 1 is aimed at 100% of students, parents, school staff, and community stakeholders. This is where you cast a wide net. Strategies are general to reach the largest audiences and include all employees and stakeholders.

Tiered plans will include strategies and interventions for the 5 core ingredients.

• Monitor Data
• Engage Students and Families
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• Provide Personalized Outreach
• Remove Barriers

South Broward High utilizes the following Tier 1 strategies:

• Promote attendance using school's website, Twitter, parent links, newsletter, remind group
• Promote attendance in Positive Behavior Assemblies
• Promote attendance through School-Wide Positive Behavior Plan posters
• Quarterly Perfect Attendance Awards Program
• Positive Referral  (Monthly School-Wide Positive Behavior Awards Program) which requires satisfactory attendance
• Positive Behavior Field Day (School-Wide Positive Behavior Awards Program) which requires satisfactory attendance
• Teachers discuss attendance when making parent contact

Tier 2 Strategies and Interventions to Improve Attendance

Tier 2 Strategies and Interventions to Improve Attendance - Address all five core ingredients. Tier 2 identifies students using early warning indicators to make connections with students and families at the onset of the school year or emergence of patterns of non-attendance. Early warning indicators include prior year chronic absenteeism, 3 or more absences in the first 4 weeks of enrollment, more than 10% of school days absent in any time period from the beginning of enrollment.

- Tier 2 represents between 10-20% of students at all schools in Broward County. This is true at individual schools and across the District.

- Chronic Absenteeism: Absent for 10% or more school days. These absences include excused, unexcused, and suspensions as days of instruction missed.

Tiered plans will include strategies and interventions for the 5 core ingredients.

• Monitor Data
• Engage Students and Families
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• Provide Personalized Outreach
• Remove Barriers

Every 3 weeks, first/fifth period teachers perform an attendance check of their students. The following actions are taken depending on the number of absences accrued: 

• At 3 absences/quarter - Teachers make parent contact
• At 6 absences/quarter - Teachers make a second parent contact
• At 8 absences/quarter - Teachers generate a Guidance Referral.

Tier 3 Interventions

Tier 3 Interventions - Address all five core ingredients. Tier 3 is the highest level of intervention and support for students that are absent 20% or more school days during the year.

- At most schools, Tier 3 interventions are utilized for about 5% (or less) of the student population.

Tiered plans will include strategies and interventions for the 5 core ingredients.

• Monitor Data
• Engage Students and Families
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• Provide Personalized Outreach
• Remove Barriers

Teachers generate Guidance Referrals at the student's eighth absence per quarter. Grade level Guidance Counselors generate Social Worker Referrals as needed. Social Worker directs the family to the appropriate services pursuant to their situation. Guidance Counselors continue to monitor student success with interventions.