Missouri Revised Statutes Title XI. Education and Libraries § 167.034. Absences in St. Louis City reported to children's division, when, notification requirements--duties of children's division

1. In any city not within a county where a child under the age of seventeen required to attend school under section 167.031 accumulates fifteen or more absences during any one school year, the child's school district shall report such absences to the children's division within ten business days of the fifteenth day of absence. Such notification, which shall be in written form and retained in the student's school records, shall include:

2. Upon receipt of a report of the absences of a child under this section, the children's division shall notify the child's parent or guardian that the child has accumulated fifteen or more absences and such report may be subject to the educational neglect provisions under section 210.145. The notification required under this section is required regardless of whether a student's parent or guardian contacted the school and approved of the absences.