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Promotional Policies
Students will not move up to the next homeroom level if they do not
meet the requirements. Requirements for promotion are based on the
following:
Grade 10:
5 units including 1 of English, and 1 math
Grade 11:
11 units including 2 of English, 2 math courses,
1 science, and 1 social studies
Grade 12
and 4
th
year
students:
16 units and be enrolled in all courses required
to graduate
ATTENDANCE
NOTE: Attendance is taken in each class. To receive credit in each
class, you must be present in each class the required minimum number
of days.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Perfect attendance at BFA is calculated by class. If a student misses
enough time out of any class period then the student is counted absent
in the class, even medically excused, then that one class would nullify a
perfect attendance record.
State Board Regulations for Attendance
Attendance policies and procedures at the Byrnes Freshman Academy
are designed to incorporate South Carolina State Board of Education
regulations. The unlawful absences pertaining to truancy are
cumulative for the entire school year (180 days).
State Board Regulation: 43-274.
Student Attendance
A. Lawful and Unlawful Absences: School districts must adopt
polices to define and list lawful and unlawful absences.
1. Lawful absences include but are not limited to
a. absences caused by a student’s own illness
and
whose attendance in school would endanger his or
her health or the health of others
b. absences
due to an illness or death in the student’s
immediate family
