Austin ISD is required to submit attendance to the Texas Education Agency at 10:30AM everyday. Please try to schedule appointments for your student after school, but if that is too difficult, try and schedule medical appointments after 10:30 AM.

If your child is going to be absent, there are two ways to report it. 

Option 1

Please send an email to mills@austinisd.org and your child’s teacher. Our registrar and attendance specialist, Kristi Thomason, needs parents to include the following information:

1) The student’s first and last name,

2) The date they will be missing school, &

3) The reason they will be missing school.

Have a doctor’s note for an absence? Send it to mills@austinisd.org asap or within 48 hours if possible. 

Option 2

Parents should complete the “Report an Absence” form and any documentation should be submitted as soon as possible (recommended within 48 hours after the absence has occurred). Documentation must support the reason for the absence to be coded correctly. You can also print it out and hand deliver it to the front office.  We love seeing you! Or, you can run the gauntlet, and put it in your child’s ultra secure backpack so they can hand deliver it to their teacher. 

If you have selected Option 1 (emailing mills@austinisd.org with the three important pieces of information), then

​For more information regarding attendance, please visit the AISD attendance FAQ.