How to Report an Absence

1.) To authorize an absence via Infinite Campus, please log into the parent portal and submit an absence request

https://dist113il.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/township.jsp

2.) To authorize via phone, please call the attendance line:  

Deerfield High School                                                Highland Park High School

224-632-3001                                                              224-765-2020

Hours: 7:15-3:30                                                         Hours: 7:30-4:00

Room: K121                                                                 Room: A222

When calling the Attendance Office, please include the following information: 

• Student Name
• ID#
• Date of absence
• Time of absence/appointment
• Reason for absence
  
  

*REMEMBER, CALLS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59 PM THE DAY OF THE ABSENCE FOR AUTHORIZATION*

If you are unable to call the attendance office during regular hours, please use the answering machine to leave your student’s absence information.

After 3:30 p.m. and on weekends parents or guardians may leave a message on the attendance office voicemail. If a telephone call is not received by 12:00 a.m. the day of the absence, the absence will be unauthorized. Special circumstances will be considered by the Deans. 

Upon enrollment in the District, parents/guardians must provide the school at least one and not more than 2 telephone numbers so that the school may make a reasonable effort to promptly telephone and notify the parent/guardian if the child is absent from school. Parents/guardians may notify the school of any change to the contact numbers. 

If a student needs to leave school during the school day, a parent/guardian must notify the attendance office a minimum of 2 hours in advance of departure.

If a student must leave school for an appointment of any kind, the attendance office clerks must be notified of the time of departure and the anticipated time of return by a parent or guardian. The student must check out in the Attendance Office, pick up a pass and present it to the staff member at either Security Desk upon leaving in order for the absences to be authorized. Students returning to school or coming in late must check in at the Attendance Office in order for the absence to be authorized. The Attendance Office must receive a phone call from a parent/guardian, or the absence will remain unauthorized.

NOTE: Students may not be “called out” for a class period they do not wish to attend while remaining at school. If the student does not attend class but remains in the building, the absence will be considered unauthorized. Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes.

A student who becomes ill at school must report to the Health Service. At the Health Service the nurse will:

• Note the time of arrival and departure of the student to authorize any class absences.
• Determine whether appropriate care should be provided in the office, at home or at the hospital, and
• Help the student make arrangements to get home if that is the best course of action.
• If a student becomes ill and leaves school, it is expected that the student will stay home for the remainder of the day.

Students who become ill and leave school without seeing the nurse will be marked unauthorized for any classes which they miss.

If a student begins the day ill, and later feels better and decides to come to school, the student must check in at the Attendance Office before going to class.

If a student has an emergency which is not health-related and is not sure what to do, the student should report to the Attendance Office and see one of the Deans prior to leaving school.