Daily Bulletin
Jim Thorpe Area High School Bulletin for Thursday, September 18, 2025
College Night
The 2025 Carbon County College & Technical Education Night will be held at Jim Thorpe Area High School, on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Admission is free of charge.
Representatives from over 50 colleges, universities, technical and trade schools, and military services will be in attendance at the college night to provide information and answer questions.
Don't forget to register at StriveFair.com to get your Barcode.
Parents and students from Carbon County and surrounding areas are encouraged to attend and high school students attending will be eligible for prize drawings.
Teacher In Service
The Jim Thorpe Area High School will be CLOSED on Thursday, September 25th for a Teacher In Service.
Lunch Week of 9/15/25
Monday -- Chicken and Waffles
Tuesday -- Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup
Wednesday -- Chicken Ramen Noodle Bowl
Thursday -- BBQ Pulled Pork Loaded Fries
Friday -- Breaded Chicken Parm & Pasta
Picture Day
Picture Day at the Jim Thorpe Area High School will be on Monday, September 29th.
****All Students need to get their picture taken even if you are not buying the package. This is how they will obtain their Student IDs.
Attendance
ATTENDANCE
Attendance shall be required of all students enrolled in the school during the days and hours that the
school is in session, except that a principal or teacher may excuse a student for temporary absences when he/she receives satisfactory evidence of such mental, physical, or other urgent conditions which may reasonably cause the student's absence.
It should be noted, credit for the year may be withdrawn when a student acquires absences totaling
twenty (20) or more days unless there are extenuating circumstances.
District-wide guidelines for attendance
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Students arriving after 7:45 AM but before 10:30 AM are considered tardy.
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Students arriving after 10:30 AM but before 12:30 PM are considered AM absence.
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Students arriving after 12:30 PM will be considered a full day absence.
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Students leaving before 12:30 PM will be considered a PM absence.
Students are considered late to school if not in the school building by 7:45 AM.
******Students arriving after 10:30 AM will be ineligible to participate in any extracurricular activity on that day unless there is documentation that is handed into the office showing their presence at an approved
appointment.
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ABSENCE
As soon as a student returns to school after any absence, he/she should return an excuse note, or doctor's
statement to the office or by email to hs_attendance@jtasd.org. This excuse note is to be completed by a parent indicating the reason for the absence and is to be signed by the parent. It is to be returned within THREE DAYS of the student's return to school or the absence will be considered unexcused. If a student is out for three or more consecutive days, there MUST be a Doctor's certificate handed in, not a parent note, in order for the days to be excused. Once a student accrues fifteen (15) days of absence, a Doctor's certificate must be handed in for each day of absence thereafter, a parent's note will cause the days to be considered unexcused.
Administration has the option to call and verify doctor's notes.
In case of truancy and/or forged excuses, the absence will be unexcused and the parent will be notified
and the detention policy will be enforced.
Parents and students can be fined following their child's third day of unexcused or illegal absence from school, and they are therefore urged to send an excuse with the student on the day following the student's absence.
Students subjected to truancy fines can lose their driver's license for a period of time.
Parents may receive calls from our messenger system to make you aware that your child is absent from schoo