Attendance Law In pursuit of our goals in our mission statement it is also our duty to uphold and inform our parents, students, and community of the Compulsory Attendance Laws of the State of Texas. Following are some of the most important facets of the Compulsory Attendance Law. The following students are required to attend school each day for the entire period the program of instruction is provided. 25.85 (b) Unless specifically exempted by Section 25.086, a child who is at least six years of age, or who has previously been enrolled in first grade, and who has not reached the child's 18th birthday. (c) On enrollment in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten, a child shall attend school. 25.93 Thwarting Compulsory Attendance Law To be held liable under the truancy statute, the parent or legal guardian must with "criminal negligence" fail to require the child to attend school in violation of the compulsory attendance law. Thus, if an ordinary person under the circumstances should have been aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the child was skipping school, yet the parent failed to take action to prevent the truancy, the parent could be found criminally negligent under the truancy law. 25.94 Failure to Attend School Texas Education Code §25.094 allows a compliant to be filed in a justice of the peace court against the child, separate and apart from any charge that may be filed against the parents. Such a complaint may be filed against a student when the student has unexcused voluntary absences from school on 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period, or on three or more days within a six-month period, or on three or more days or parts of days within a four-week period. 25.092 Minimum Attendance for Class Credit (a) Except as provided by this section, a student may not be given credit for a class unless the student is in attendance for at least 90 percent of the days the class is offered. In other words, students may not miss more than 14 days in elementary and middle school and no more than 7 days in high school in our district to receive credit for a class unless extenuating circumstances can be documented. Please be aware that parents and/or students may be filed on for violation of the above laws if the student has three or more unexcused absences or incidences of tardiness in a four week period or ten or more unexcused days absence or incidence of tardiness in a six month period.