5155 Student Withdrawal from School

(This policy replaces existing Board of Education policy 5119 – Student Withdrawal From School) 

Before a student may be dropped from enrollment, he/she must have been absent for 20 consecutive school days and statutory procedures must be 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 shall schedule and notify in writing both the student and his/her parents or guardians of an informal conference.
2. At such conference, the principal shall determine the reasons for the student’s absences and ascertain whether reasonable changes in the student’s educational program would encourage and facilitate his/her reentry or continuance of study.
3. The student and his/her parents or guardians shall 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 his/her parents or guardians fail, after reasonable notice, to attend the informal conference, the student shall be dropped from the rolls of the school, provided that he/she and the parents or guardians have been notified that they 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 shall 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.

Approved by the Board of Education: 02/13/07

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