Truancy

KRS 159.150:

Any student who has attained the age of six years, but has not reached his/her eighteenth birthday, who has been absent from school without valid excuse for three or more days or tardy without valid excuse on three or more days is a truant.

Any student enrolled in public school who has attained the age if eighteen years, but not reached his/her twenty-first birthday , who  has been absent from school without valid excuse for three or more days or tardy without valid excuse on three or more days is a truant.

Any student who has been reported as a truant two or more times is an habitual truant.

• Students will receive counseling at school
• Contact will be made by FRYSC
• DPP will be notified
• DPP will schedule an attendance intervention meeting
• DPP will, if all fails, pursue legal action

For the purposes of establishing a student’s status as a truant, the student’s attendance record is cumulative for an entire school year.  If a student transfers from one Kentucky public school to another during a school year, the receiving school shall incorporate the attendance information provided under KRS 159.170 in the student’s official attendance record.