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# What do the attendance statuses mean?

> Defines Present, Late, Absent, Excused, and not marked, and which ones count as attended.

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  **Must know**

  * There are four tracked statuses — **Present**, **Late**, **Absent**, and **Excused**. An athlete you don't mark is **not marked** and is left out of the attendance rate.
  * **Present** and **Late** both count as attended.
  * The marks you record feed each athlete's attendance history in their family's portal.
</Note>

When you take attendance, each athlete gets one of these:

* **Present** (green) — the athlete showed up and was there on time.
* **Late** (amber) — the athlete came, but arrived late. Still counts as attended.
* **Absent** (red) — the athlete didn't come.
* **Excused** (blue) — the athlete missed the class for a reason the club accepts. It's still recorded as a missed class, so it counts as not-attended — but unlike **Absent**, it's flagged as excused and doesn't trigger the missed-class notification a plain no-show can send to the family.
* **Not marked** — you haven't recorded anything for this athlete yet. Not-marked athletes are excluded from the attendance rate entirely, so leaving someone unmarked doesn't count against them.

In the attendance percentage families see, **Present** and **Late** count as attended while **Absent** and **Excused** both count as not-attended and lower the rate. The admin per-program **Attendance** report treats **Excused** differently — it's left out of that calculation entirely, so only **Absent** lowers the rate there. Where they differ is what reaches the family: marking someone **Absent** can send their family a missed-class notification, while **Excused** records the same missed class as approved and holds that notification back. Athletes you leave **not marked** are left out of the math altogether.

Everything you mark here rolls up into the athlete's attendance history, which their family can review in their own portal — so accurate marking keeps everyone on the same page.

**Related:** [How do I take attendance for a class?](/coaches/coach-your-day/take-attendance-for-a-class) · [How do I add an athlete who isn't on the roster?](/coaches/coach-your-day/add-athlete-not-on-roster) · [What do the class status labels mean?](/coaches/coach-your-day/session-status-labels)