Students must attend at least 85% of an individual course’s scheduled classes each semester to not be in jeopardy of being place on Behavioral Probation. Extreme circumstances that may cause a student to justifiably drop below 85% attendance will be taken into consideration by the RS headmaster. Examples of extreme circumstances include significant illness, catastrophic injury, or death of a family member.
A student who falls below 85% attendance in any course will be placed on Behavioral Probation for a minimum of two weeks. If a student’s attendance drops below 85% but remains above 75%, the student may, after review of the circumstances by the RS headmaster, still earn credit for the course. Under most circumstances, students who drop below 75% attendance will not receive credit for course work. Non-calculating absences (see below), including school-related absences (absences that are the result of Geneva curricular or extracurricular obligations such as athletic events or debate tournaments) do not count towards the total number of absences.