Daily Bulletin
Jim Thorpe Area High School Bulletin for Friday, October 31, 2025
Lunch Week of 10/27/25
Monday -- Southern Hot honey Chicken Flatbread
Tuesday -- French Toast & Sausage
Wednesday -- Chicken Ramen Noodle Bowl with Vegetables
Thursday -- BBQ Pulled Pork loaded fries
Friday -- Breaded Chicken Parm and Pasta
Spirit Week 2025
Monday, October 20th -- NEON MONDAY -- Start the week bright and excited with all neon.
Tuesday, October 21st -- TWIN TUESDAY -- Find your soul twin and make your dynamic duos.
Wednesday, October 22nd -- DECADES WEDNESDAY -- Choose your era & dress the part.
Thursday, October 23rd -- TOMORROW LESISKO THURSDAY -- Black pants, white shirt, & colorful tie.
Friday, October 24th -- OLYMPIAN FANATIC FRIDAY -- Show your pride with Red, White, & Blue.
Friday, October 31st -- HALLOWEEN COSTUME DAY -- Come to school in our best costume.
REMINDERS:
NO vulgarity, gang signs, or indecent exposure.
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It should be noted, credit for the year may be withdrawn when a student acquires absences totaling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
2025-2026 College Representative Visits Commonwealth University - Thursday, 10/9/25 at 1:30 pm; Cancelled - Valley Forge Military College - Tuesday, 10/14/25 at 10:30 am; Lebanon Valley College - Thursday, 10/16/25 at 10:00 am; King's College - Friday, 10/17/25 at 1:30 pm; Penn State - Monday, 10/20/25 at 8:30 am; Marywood University - Monday, 10/20/25 at 1:30 pm; Chestnut Hill College - Tuesday, 10/21/25 at 8:30 am; Cedar Crest College - Tuesday, 10/21/25 at 9:30 am; CANCELLED - Lycoming College - Friday, 10/24/25 at 9:00 am; Moravian University - Monday, 10/27/25 at 9:00 am; Alfred State University (SUNY College of Technology) - Monday, 10/27/25 at 10:30 am; Kutztown University - Tuesday, 10/28/25 at 9:00 am; Muhlenberg College - Wednesday, 10/29/25 at 9:30 am; Alvernia University - Tuesday, 11/4/25 at 10:00 am