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Prior Lake-Savage review: attendance codes recoded, deans point to outreach and incentives
Summary
District staff reported a K–12 refresh of attendance and behavior codes and described school-level interventions — weekly attendance teams, early outreach at five days, dean-led check-ins, PBIS incentives and targeted device restrictions — while board members flagged policy alignment and state reporting concerns.
District staff told the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools board at a study session that the district has completed a K–12 refresh of legacy attendance and behavior codes and is now working to stabilize reporting and local practices.
The presenter said the recode was necessary because older, inconsistent codes made year-over-year comparisons unreliable and that elementary attendance (AM/PM) is recorded differently than secondary attendance (per class). The recoding effort, she said, involved deans at every level to decide which codes to keep, merge or retire.
That recoding shaped board discussion about what counts as an excused or unexcused absence. A board member noted,…
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