Please call or log into the PowerSchool Parent Portal when your child is going to be absent. Please call or report your absence before 8:30 am. If it is after 9:00 am you still may receive a phone call due to automatic attendance by the system after this time. 

  1. Cottonwood's Attendance Clerk, Cathy Gudenkauf

  • Phone number: 879-2603

  • Or log into the PowerSchool Parent Portal. Please review the guide on how to report an absence in PowerSchool.

It is required that we record the reason for an absence. We MUST get a reason for the absence from you or the absence is automatically UNEXCUSED. Please note that not all absences (even those called in) are excused.

PLEASE CALL 879-2602 or 879-2603 for TRANSPORTATION/BUS CHANGES Before 1:00 pm DAILY!

Thank you!

How to report an absence