SART/SARB

The School Attendance Review Board (SARB) is a community-based effort to bring together resources to assist families with attendance and truancy issues. The SARB level is the district’s last chance to keep students and families out of the court system. SARB’s intervention with each student begins after a completed referral packet has been received from the respective school. A serious attendance problem often begins with a few unexcused absences. Counselors, teachers, nurses, and a School Attendance Review Team (SART) may be brought in to help students at the school site level. When the school has exhausted all resources and a student’s attendance has not improved, then a family may be referred to a SARB hearing.