Woodland Joint Unified

Our goal is to educate your child. We cannot be successful if your child is not in school.

Student Attendance and Welfare is implemented in the Woodland Joint Unified School District to coordinate services that help students and families succeed in school and in life. Student Attendance and Welfare will provide services to students and families who are:

 

California's compulsory education law requires everyone between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend school. The one exception is for 16 and 17-year-olds who have graduated high school or passed the California High School Proficiency Examinations (CHSPE) and have parental permission to leave school.

 

Student Attendance and Welfare will help in the following ways: 

 

Woodland Joint Unified School District operates a Student Attendance Review Board (SARB) process designed to support children and families in maintaining positive school attendance patterns which allow students the maximum opportunity to learn.

The SARB is composed of school, law enforcement, social service agencies, parents and community members, who meet regularly to diagnose and resolve persistent student attendance problems.

The goal of SARB is to help students stay in school. They work with truant or recalcitrant students and their parents or guardians to identify attendance problems early and to solve school attendance problems through the use of available school and community resources, including: