Truancy Prevention Measures

Truancy Enforcement

Little Elm ISD enforces the Texas Compulsory attendance laws in the following ways (Education Code 25.085):

• Parents or guardians will receive daily attendance notifications by phone, email, and text message if their student is marked absent for the day or a class period. The email notification includes a link to submit an absence note. Please ensure your contact information is up to date with your student’s campus, as it is the parent’s responsibility to keep this information current.
• If a student's attendance record shows 3 or more days or parts of days in a four-week period as unexcused absences, a warning letter will be sent to parents or guardians. At this point, the campus will begin Truancy Prevention Measures for the student. Texas Education Code 25.0915 states that school districts may adopt truancy prevention measures designed to address the student's conduct regarding truancy. 
  • Truancy Measures may include:
    • Automated phone calls, text messaging, and emails to parents/guardians
    • Parent/guardians and/or student conference
    • Attendance contract designed to improve the student's attendance.
    • In School Suspension (ISS) 
    • Saturday School 
    • Home visits by campus administration and/or district social worker
    • Tribunal Court

If the above truancy prevention measures do not solve the student's attendance conduct, the student will be referred to the tribunal court facilitated by Payton, Nix & Associates. Our goal is to solve any student's truant conduct utilizing our truancy prevention measures listed above prior to referrals to municipal and county court.  

Tribunals are held on Mondays from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Little Elm Administration Building, 400 Lobo Lane, Little Elm, TX, 75068.