As an attendance officer, your primary responsibilities include tracking student attendance and enforcing rules about truancy. While prevention is your primary duty, your duties may also include initiating disciplinary action if I student is consistently absent. If a student has an unexcused absence, you first contact the parents. You then track down students with extensive absences from school and evaluate the situation. Your long-term goal as an attendance officer is dropout prevention, which means you must train teachers in ways to encourage student attendance. You also work with police officers or social workers to improve attendance.