Hours and Attendance

Office Hours: 7:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Teacher workday: 7:15 a.m.- 3:15 p.m.

7:30 a.m. - Front Doors and Bus Doors unlock. Option Breakfast begins. 

7:45 a.m. - Students need to be in their classrooms

2:15 a.m. - KG-5th grade students are dismissed (pickup time)

Reporting an Absence

• Call attendance line 336-8875 then “3” to leave a recorded message

• Email lesterattendance@isd709.org  (the office & nurse will both see these emails)

• Please list any specific symptoms, as well as positive for COVID cases.

• Teachers may have a preferred way for you to report an absence to them. 

• If we do not hear why a student is absent, an automated phone call and an email message will be sent out at some point between 8:30-9:00am. This is for safety reasons. 

Late/Tardy

• Students need to be in the classrooms by 7:45 a.m.

• After so many tardies, unexcused or excessive absences, attendance letters will be mailed out.

• If you have the cell phone app and your child is late, please note you will receive two attendance emails. We need to first mark him/her absent and then check them in at their arrival time.

Guidelines for Keeping a Student Home

• Has a fever of 100 or higher. Students need to be fever-free for 24 hours without the aid of fever-reducing medication before returning to school 

• Vomiting or diarrhea within the last 24 hours. Students should remain at home for 24 hours after vomiting or diarrhea has stopped. 

• Persistent cough

• Has an open or draining skin sore(s) that cannot be covered by a bandage or clothing.