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5155 Student Withdrawal

  • 5000: Student Policies
5155 Student Withdrawal

All children over the age of five (5) are required to attend school until the last day of the school year in which they become sixteen (16) years of age, unless the student has completed a four-year high school course of study or an exemption under current law or regulation is applicable.

A student over the age of 16 may be dropped from enrollment if they have been absent for 20 consecutive school days and statutory procedures are followed. It is the responsibility of the building principal, in cooperation with the Coordinator of Attendance, to ensure that the procedures set forth below are followed:

  1. The building principal must schedule and notify in writing both the student and their parents or guardians of an informal conference.
  2. At such conference, the principal will determine the reasons for the student's absences and determine whether reasonable changes in the student's educational program would encourage and facilitate their re-entry or continuance of study.
  3. The student and their parents or guardians must be informed orally and in writing of the student's rights to re-enroll at any time in the school, if qualified under the law.
  4. If the student and their parents or guardians fail, after reasonable notice, to attend the informal conference, the student may be dropped from enrollment, provided that the student and the parents or guardians have been notified that the student may re-enter at any time if qualified under the law.

Withdrawal from school, at the end of the school year in which the student turns sixteen (16), will require parental consent. The student's parents or guardians will be required to contact the high school principal's office, and, subsequently, appear at the principal's office to formally authorize, in writing, the student's withdrawal from school.

Ref: Education Law § 3202 (1-a) Family Court Act § 711 et.seq.
Board Policy 5100 (Attendance)
Board Policy 5130 (Compulsory Attendance Ages)
Approved by the Board of Education: 02/13/07
Revision approved by the Board of Education: 12/21/23

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