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Cibola High School Handbooks

For information about Athletics eligibility, please refer to the: Athletic Eligibility and Substance Abuse Policy

For additional information refer to the: APS Handbook for Student Sucess. or the Handbook for Student Success (PDF).

Attendance

Report an Absence:

  • Parents can excuse absence through Synergy via ParentVue. Can you include language about that for parents? And then, add if they have questions about excusing absences through ParentVue, to contact Angela Aragon at (505) 897-0110 Ext. 40001

Attendance and Tardies

Student attendance is a critical educational process component. Students, families and APS personnel must work together to promote student success by encouraging daily student attendance. Attendance positively correlates to student success and should not be treated as a disciplinary issue, but rather lead to conversations with students and families to improve attendance. Cibola High School enforces the APS Attendance Policy.

APS Attendance

Tardy Policy

Students with five or more tardies in a class will face progressive discipline consequences, which may include lunch detention, parent communication, attendance plan and  potentially in-school suspension (ISS). 

Excused Absences

Absences may be excused for the following reasons with appropriate documentation:

  • Illness (including chronic illness documented on a health plan, IEP or 504 plan)
  • Limited family emergencies; family deaths
  • Medical, health or legal appointments
  • Religious commitment
  • College visit (11th and 12th grade students)

All Absences For Other Reasons Are Unexcused Including

  • Non-school sponsored activities or trips

  • Family vacations outside of the normally scheduled school break

Excessive Absences

  • Excessive absences are defined as more than 5 days in a semester or 10 days in a year.

  • Schools will support students with interventions to help stop excessive absences.

  • School related activities (Cougar absences) that take a student out of class will not count toward excessive absence totals.

  • Schools will not allow a student to miss more than 10 school related absences per class per semester.

  • Schools may not suspend students for excessive excused or unexcused absences.

  • Schools may withdraw for absences only if the student has missed 10 days in a row, the parent has not contacted the school, and the school cannot reach the student or family to provide supports.

    • 2 unexcused absences – automated call to families

    • 5 unexcused absences – automated call. School staff must make contact with the family and schedule an appointment to team with the parent on strategies and support.

    • 10 unexcused absences – families will receive a written letter. Parents/guardians will need to meet with school staff to review prior strategies and develop a more intensive support plan.

    • Students that receive more than 10 unexcused absences may be referred to Juvenile Probation.

Make-Up Work

  • On the first day back to a class, students are responsible for requesting make-up assignments. Students will have the opportunity to complete the work in a period of time equal to the number of days absent unless other arrangements have been mutually agreed upon by the student and the teacher.

  • It is expected that students will take semester finals on the days that they are scheduled. Students will be permitted to make up finals if they are missed due to an excused absence as listed in the handbook. Requesting permission to take a final exam early is discouraged. Approval of such a request will rest with the teacher in consultation with the principal.

  • Teachers will need 24 hours from the time of the request to compile assignments when a student will be out of school three (3) or more consecutive days.

  • Makeup work for students with more than 10 unexcused absences in a year (5 in a semester) may be given only after a parent attends an Parent/Teacher conference.

Cell Phones Policy

To maintain an environment conducive to learning, Cibola High School has established the following cell phone guidelines:

  • The student who possesses a personal electronic device shall be solely responsible for its care.
  • Student possession of personal electronic devices on all school campuses, including athletic fields, and school buses, at school-sponsored activities and while the student is under the supervision and control of school district employees shall be permitted. All students may use these devices on campus before school begins and after school ends. In addition, students in high school grades 9-12 may use such devices during their lunch period as determined by the school administration.
  • These devices shall be kept out of sight and powered off or silenced during the school day and during any school-sponsored activity, meeting or practice held on Albuquerque Public Schools property. The requirement that personal electronic devices be turned off may not apply in the following circumstances when the student obtains prior approval from the principal or his/her designee:
    • The student or a family member has a special medical circumstance.
    • The student is using the device for an educational or instructional purpose with the teacher’s permission and supervision. 
    • The device is used as assistive technology required by a student’s IEP or current 504 plan. 
  • Violations: Unauthorized use may result in confiscation and disciplinary action.
    • 1st Violation: Verbal warning from Teacher and Staff; communication logged in Synergy
    • 2nd Violation: Phone Confiscation, student must retrieve device from the front office; failure to relinquish electronic device, e.g. cell phone, air pods,etc. will result in disciplinary action.
    • 3rd Violation: Phone Confiscation, electronic device will be released to a parent in the front office; failure to relinquish cell phone will result in disciplinary action.

Cell phones and other personal electronic devices are the responsibility of the student. If items are lost or stolen, Cibola High School is not responsible for searching for it, replacement, or reimbursement.

PJ40: Student Acceptable Use of Technology
 

Dress Code

APS/CHS shall prohibit student dress that may present a health or safety hazard, violate municipal or state law, or present a potential disruption to the instructional program. Clothing should not disrupt the learning environment or compromise safety.

APS Dress Code

Prohibited clothing and accessories include, but are not limited to:

  • Obscene or violent language or images
  • Depictions of alcohol or drugs or other illegal item or activity
  • Racist content, hate speech, profanity, or pornography
  • Accessories that could be considered dangerous or used as a weapon
  • Underclothing worn as primary clothing items
  • Sheer or see-through clothing
  • Swimwear: escorted to the Cougar Closet to change clothing. 
  • Clothing without all sides in the garment

If a student is in violation of the Dress Code policy, they will be asked to call home for a change of clothing or provided clothes from Cougar Closet.