Article 1 Compulsory School Attendance

This article is comprised of the following sections:
  • §22.1-254 Compulsory attendance required; excuses and waivers; alternative education program attendance; exemptions from article
  • §22.1-254.01 Certain students required to attend summer school or after-school sessions
  • §22.1-254.02 Students transferring from a public school
  • §22.1-254.1 Declaration of policy; requirements for home instruction of children
  • §22.1-254.2 Testing for high school equivalency; eligibility; guidelines
  • §22.1-255 Nonresident children
  • §22.1-256 Repealed
  • §22.1-258 Appointment of attendance officers; notification when pupil fails to report to school; plan; conference; court proceedings
  • §22.1-259 Teachers to keep daily attendance records
  • §22.1-260 Reports of children enrolled and not enrolled; nonattendance
  • §22.1-261 Attendance officer to make list of children not enrolled; duties of attendance officer
  • §22.1-262 Complaint to court when parent fails to comply with law
  • §22.1-263 Violation constitutes misdemeanor
  • §22.1-264 Misdemeanor to make false statements as to age
  • §22.1-264.1 Misdemeanor to make false statements as to school division or attendance zone residency; penalty
  • §22.1-265 Inducing children to absent themselves
  • §22.1-266 Law-enforcement officers and truant children
  • §22.1-267 Proceedings against habitually absent child
  • §22.1-268 Duty of attorneys for the Commonwealth to prosecute cases arising under article; jurisdiction of offenses
  • §22.1-269 Board to enforce
  • §22.1-269.1 Alternative attendance programs