Lake County Attendance Challenge announced for 2018-2019 School Year
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Office of Education announced new dates for this school year’s countywide Attendance Challenge.
All Lake County schools will be competing with each other for bragging rights to who has the best attendance.
This year the Attendance Challenge will take place over two different weeks. The first Attendance Challenge week will be Oct. 15 to 19.
The second Attendance Challenge week will be March 18 to 22, 2019.
This year’s winners will be the schools with the highest combined attendance data from both of those weeks.
Awards will be given in the following six categories:
1. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Elementary School.
2. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Middle School.
3. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County High School.
4. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Alternative School.
5. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Preschool School.
6. Most Improved Attendance Percentage Lake County School.
The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe will once again donate award monies to the Lake County Office of Education to be presented to the six winning Lake County schools.
“Good school attendance is essential to academic success. When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic prospects and chances for graduating,” explained Lake County Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg.
Rob Young, emergency services and special projects coordinator at LCOE, is organizing the project. “Last year the Attendance Challenge was very successful across all Lake County campuses. This year we’ve expanded it, and we’re looking forward to the competition,” Young said.
"Our students were excited and mobilized,” said Principal Shane Lee of Coyote Valley Elementary School in Hidden Valley Lake. “It was a wonderful environment here at CVE. When our school wide announcement proclaiming our win, reached our classrooms, the collective cheers could be heard all over campus.”
Last year’s winners were:
1. Clear Lake High School, Lakeport Unified School District.
2. Terrace Middle School, Lakeport Unified School District.
3. Coyote Valley Elementary School, Middletown Unified School District.
Lee added, “Coming to school each day is very important and the Attendance Challenge allowed our students, staff, and community to celebrate and discuss the importance of attendance."
Each school district will be sending information home to students and parents about the Attendance Challenge. More information can be found at www.lakecoe.org or on the Lake County Office of Education’s Facebook page.