Hawk Family,

Students we have one regular week to go before finals! Please see the Spring 2024 Exam Schedule below and good luck!

Seniors this week is jam packed with Senior Robing, Senior walks of your prior schools, and Senior Trip! Take in every moment and enjoy!

Juniors and soon to be Seniors 2025-please sign up for your Senior photos for our yearbook. Cady portraits takes our senior year book photos so please see below to sign up.

Attention 9th graders and families, there is a requirement starting with your graduating class (2027) in which 40 hours of Volunteer/Service hours must be acquired during high school (cumulation of 4 years) as part of your graduation requirements. Students can submit documentation/verification through SchooLinks. Additionally, any current sophomore, junior, or senior can upload and track volunteer hours in SchooLinks. Please see the link below.

Have a great week Hawks!

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns tina.salazar@hayscisd.net.

Sincerely,

Tina Salazar

Principal

Hays High School

#HawkYeah

Class of 2025 and parents of student of the Class of 2025 - Please see below to sign up for your Senior Photo Shoot. Cady Portraits is the photographer that takes our senior photos for our yearbook. Please also check your emails as you may have received something from them with information about next steps. I've provided a link below in case you need it. Thank you!

Students who entered 9th grade in 2023 are required to complete 40 hours of Volunteer/Service hours during high school as part of their graduation requirements. Students can submit documentation/verification through SchooLinks. Additionally, any current sophomore, junior, or senior can upload and track volunteer hours in SchooLinks.

Please click the link below for more information.

While we understand and are empathetic to circumstances out of your control, there are attendance laws that all schools must follow.

In addition to compulsory attendance law, districts are required to enforce the 90 percent rule, which states that students in grades K-12 must attend class for 90 percent of the time it is offered to receive credit or a final grade. The 90 percent rule applies to most absences, including excused absences. If the student doesn’t meet this requirement, an attendance committee may grant the student credit or a final grade, depending on the circumstances.

• To share a tip by phone, call 1-800-324-8477
  
  
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Get your tickets from today! All Tickets include food, drinks, and games/activities for the event. No additional money will be needed.

Sign up today at https://bit.ly/HAYSPG2024

Dress and Grooming (All Grade Levels)

Philosophy

The district’s dress code teaches grooming and hygiene, prevents disruption, and minimizes safety hazards. Students and parents may determine a student’s personal dress and grooming standards, provided that they comply with district and campus expectations. The district’s dress code is established to teach grooming and hygiene, prevent disruption and minimize safety-hazards. Students should be dressed and groomed in a manner that is clean and neat and that will not be a health or safety-hazard to themselves or others. The district prohibits any clothing, grooming, or display of images that cause, or in the principal or designee’s judgment may reasonably be predicted to cause, disruption of or interference with school activities. For dress code interpretation and enforcement, the campus Principal, or designee, shall be responsible.

1. All pants/shorts/skirts/skorts should be worn at the waist to avoid “sagging/bagging.”
2. Tight fitting pants, such as (tights, spandex, bicycle pants, leggings) should be worn with a shirt that covers the stomach.
3. Fashionable pants featuring minimal holes and frays can be worn if it does not reveal the undergarment or skin above mid-thigh.
4. Shorts, skirts and/or skorts are appropriate to wear if they do not reveal the buttocks area.
5. Shirts should not be see-through or transparent, reveal excessive cleavage, or show the stomach/back area.
6. Hats may be worn outside the building to prevent facial sun exposure. Wearing a hat inside the building may be considered based on individual circumstances that may include medical and/or other factors. Documentation will be required to support exceptions.
7. Sweatshirts and/or shirts with hoodies may be worn if the hoodie is not worn over the head inside the building.
8. SmartTags/Student IDs are part of the dress code. Students are expected to wear their ID every day around their neck.

Hays High School Counseling Website: https://sites.google.com/g.hayscisd.net/hays-high-school-counselors/home

Starr Cruz

A - C

starr.cruz@hayscisd.net

Elizabeth Cunningham

D-He

elizabeth.cunningham@hayscisd.net

Kerri Curcoe

Hi-Mo

kerri.curcoe@hayscisd.net

Sarah Limerick

Mu-Sa

sarah.limerick@hayscisd.net

Zulma Hernandez-Ramirez

Sc-Z

zulma.hernandez-ramirez@hayscisd.net

College and Career Counselor

Julie Gooden

julie.gooden@hayscisd.net

Outreach Counselor

Joann Dono

joann.dono@hayscisd.net

Please help Hays HS keep students safe by picking up your student at the curb in front of Joe Graham Gym. Talk to your student and remind them to wait for you to arrive at the curb before getting into the vehicle. This will prevent students from walking in front of other vehicles and busses. This will also help the flow of traffic.

• For self-checkout requests, please ensure your request is sent to us at least 24 hours in advance or the morning of the request, by 1st/2nd period. A student can only self-check out if they have a valid HHS parking permit and the parent/guardian must include a copy of their driver's license. (This is new this year)
• If you have any questions regarding your student being counted absent for a class period, please contact your student’s teacher for that class period. The teacher will either forward a correction to the attendance office or explain why your student was not in class.

• The cut-off time for picking your student up daily is 4:00 pm.

Attendance email: HHS.attendance@hayscisd.net

All adults who come to Hays High School to check a student out of school must do so with a Texas ID (driver's license/ID card). This is to ensure the safety and protection of all our students.

Please inform everyone on your child's pick up list that they must come to Hays with their Texas ID. (driver's license/ID card)

Attendance email: HHS.attendance@hayscisd.net

Parents-students need to check in and out of the attendance office if they are arriving late or leaving early. When students do not Raptor in or out of school, the system will count them as present. Please direct your student to the attendance office when arriving to school or leaving so that records are kept correctly for purposes such as exemptions.

If you need to email a note to the attendance office please use this email address:

HHS.attendance@hayscisd.net

Thank you!

Attendance Office

Please request a VOE 24 hours in advance. Thank you!

Please utilize this link to request a VOE:

https://www.hayscisd.net//cms/module/selectsurvey/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=206

Juniors and Seniors are only allowed 2 days per year to visit a university or institution of higher education. In order for this absence to be excused and not counted against the student, the attendance office needs a letter from the college/university on their school letterhead dated and signed by college/university proving the visit occurred.

Please join our Parent, Teacher, Student Association

joinpta.org

After consideration and continuing discussions with the district student advisory panel, teachers, parents and administration; Hays CISD has decided that beginning in 2022 - 2023, students will not be allowed to use their cell phones or earbuds during instructional time. This decision is designed to help preserve the quality and integrity of instruction. Students will still be able to use their district provided devices during classes, which connect to the internet on the district’s safe and filtered network. During an emergency, students will, of course, be able to use their cell phones. See Board Policy FNCE (Local) for additional information.

If a student's phone is confiscated, it will be returned to the student at the end of the day.

Students at Hays HS will be allowed to utilize their phones and earbuds during their lunch.

Hays High School is committed to a safe environment. As part of that plan, everyone on campus is required to visibly wear their school ID. Students will be provided with a free ID at the beginning of the school year. All ID's provided after that will cost $5.00.

If a student needs an ID they need to go to the Assistant Principal's office.

As part of enhanced safety at campuses, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, all Hays CISD campuses will no longer accept deliveries from meal delivery services or restaurants for student lunches.

Parents may still bring outside food for their children if they plan to deliver the meals directly to their children during the child’s designated lunch period. All guests are required to follow existing safety protocols and check in with an ID at the front office.

1. Parents/Guardians must Raptor in with their ID.

2. Parent then hand the food to their student.

3. Parents may eat with student here on campus in the foyer.

New start and end time. The district decided to adjust start and end times for transportation to begin and end their routes in a timely manner.

Hays High School begins school at 8:55 am. and ends at 4:25 pm.

Every Child, Every Day

Email: tina.salazar@hayscisd.net
Website: https://www.hayscisd.net/hhs
Location: Jack C Hays Trail, Buda, TX, USA
Phone: (512) 268-2911
Twitter: @TinaSalHH