Handbook
APS Student Handbook Links
2024-2025 Handbook and Agenda
Kennedy Student Handbook & Agenda 2024-2025 (DOCX)
Spanish Student Handbook & Agenda 2024-2025 KMS (docX)
Pashto Student Handbook & Agenda 2024-2025 kms (pdf)
Swahili Student Handbook & Agenda 2024-2025 KMS (pdf)
Vietnamese Student Handbook & Agenda 2024-2025 kms (pdF)
GoGuardian Parent
GoGuardian Parent is an app that allows parents and guardians to control what their students do on the internet.a Parents can monitor, filter, and even block the internet access for their students.
School Policy
The School Policy can be found in your student's agenda.
Attendance
Attendance Number: (505) 298-6701 ext. 2
Albuquerque Public Schools is committed to student success. Reducing truancy in school will improve a child's academic and personal success. You will continue to receive messages regarding your child's attendance through School Messenger for daily attendance issues, two-day truancy, five-day truancy, and ten-day truancy. When a child reaches ten unexcused absences he/she is considered a habitual truant:
NMSA 22.12.9 (A) state that (1) “habitual truant: Means a student who has accumulated the equivalent of ten or more unexcused absences within a school year: and (2) “Student in need of early intervention” means a student who has accumulated five unexcused absence within a school year.
As a parent your assistance with attendance compliance is critical. Remember that Compulsory School Attendance Law (NMSA section 22-12-1) and City Ordinance (11-10-1 et. Seq.) require that a student must attend school every day with no unexcused absences.
Unexcused Absences
Unexcused absences include the following:
- Non-school sponsored activities or trips; and,
- Family vacations outside of the normally scheduled school breaks.
Excused Absences
The following are reasons for an excused absence with the appropriate documentation:
- Illness
- Limited family emergencies
- Medical, health or legal appointments
- Suspensions
- Religious commitment
- Deployment of a military parent
Administration may request additional documentation for excessive excused absences. Also, state law requires schools to withdraw a student after ten consecutive days of absence, but only after the school has exhausted its efforts to keep a student in school using a variety of interventions. We need your help to keep your child in school. We want your child to have academic success.
If your child begins to show a pattern of absences, then you may be contacted by the school and/or a District Attendance Office liaison. They are your resources to help. Welcome help. When a child is absent he/she loses instructional time, which impairs his/her opportunities to learn, grow, and achieve. Review the complete APS Attendance Policy
Extended Medical Absences
If your student has an extended absence related to an illness or injury, please contact the school nurse to develop a health and attendance plan.
Kennedy Attendance Policy
Teachers will take attendance by the class period for each instructional day. Students who miss more than 1/2 of a class period are considered absent for the entire period.
A parent/guardian must notify the school in writing that the student will be/is absent. The required for can be uploaded from here or you can get a form from the office. The form must accompany your student when he/she returns to school.This documentation can be e-mailed to the attendance secretary on the day the student returns to school. At the latest, a written note can be delivered to the secretary on the day the student returns to school, Phone calls are not accepted but appreciated in the sense of letting that student’s teacher know the student may be out due to illness. The school needs written documentation. If the documentation is not received within 3 days of the absence cannot and will not be excused.
Absences may be excused for the reasons listed above. If a student is absent the day of a game or performance they will not be able to participate in that game or performance or attend that school activity.
Mission Statement
The Students, Parents, And Staff At Kennedy Middle School Will Strive For A Responsible, Respectable, And Rigorous Learning Environment That Provides Opportunities For A Successful Community.