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Superintendent unveils daily-attendance dashboard and targets chronic absenteeism

Canyon City Schools Board of Education · January 13, 2026

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Superintendent Hartman demonstrated a new strategic-plan dashboard that will report daily attendance by school/grade and identify chronically absent students; the district estimates roughly 16% meet the chronic-absence threshold and staff will get an internal view for targeted outreach.

Superintendent Hartman told the board the district has launched a strategic-plan attendance dashboard that will show daily average attendance by school and grade and allow leaders to identify and reach out to chronically absent students. Hartman said the tool was developed with IT staff (Mike Fry) and HR staff (Miles) and that principals will be able to see lists of students who need targeted outreach rather than waiting until year-end.

Hartman explained the district's approach to chronic absenteeism: using a moving threshold of 10% of possible school days (about 16 days of 161 student-contact days) to define chronic absence and track students during the year. He said the district currently estimates that roughly 16% of students had met the chronic-absence threshold so far this year. The superintendent also said the public-facing strategic-plan dashboard will be available at canyoncityschools.org (under the strategic-plan dashboard) while an internal leadership view with student names and targeted lists will be launched to staff for operational outreach.

Board members asked whether excused absences for school functions were included; Hartman said he would follow up with a clarification about excusal categories and how they are counted in the system. He also said the district correlates discipline referrals and attendance data using Infinite Campus to better understand patterns.

Hartman characterized the initiative as a tool to direct interventions earlier and thanked staff who built the dashboard. He said the public summary will show aggregated rates while detailed student lists will be restricted to staff with a "need to know."