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Attendance

Attendance is very important at Whitney Young H.S. We will partner with our parents to ensure that our students are in attendance each day receiving their instruction. We will continue to garner support and donations from various community agencies that have been used as incentives to motivate our students to maintain excellent attendance and improve attendance to reach our desired goals. It is our goal that all of our students demonstrate a 96% or higher attendance rate.  There are systems here at Whitney Young High School to ensure that school staff understands and reinforce attendance expectations and prevent absenteeism among students. Additionally, we are providing a safe, welcoming, culturally sensitive, respectful and clean environment to promote a positive school climate. 
      We will continue to partner with the parents of our students.  With the support and assistance of our students' parents, we are successfully creating plans to ensure that our students are on track to graduate.  School starts each day 8:30 a.m.  The first period of the day begins at 8:30 a.m.  It is important that students arrive to class on time. Please help us as we strive to provide a quality instructional program for our students.   Here at Whitney Young High School, We are Compelled to Make a Difference.