High School attendance systems play an important role in monitoring student attendance and enforcing discipline in the academic environment. However, many schools still use manual methods such as written attendance lists or teacher name calling, which are inefficient, time-consuming, and prone to manipulation and fraud. These methods present challenges for teachers and administrative staff, leading to inaccurate recording, data loss, and falsification of attendance. To address these issues, this study proposes the development of a QR Code-based school attendance system using the Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology. RAD was chosen because of its ability to produce prototypes quickly and allow for iterative system improvements according to user needs. The proposed system allows students to scan a unique QR Code to automatically record their attendance, thereby reducing human intervention and minimizing errors. The expected outcomes of this study include increased accuracy, efficiency, and security in recording student attendance. The RAD approach is predicted to accelerate the development process without sacrificing ease of use and system reliability. In addition, this system is expected to be able to prevent fraud in attendance, because QR Code-based authentication provides a more secure validation mechanism. Through a series of trials and evaluations, this study aims to prove that the integration of RAD with QR Code technology can improve the effectiveness of attendance recording compared to conventional methods. Based on the results of the trials and evaluations, it can be concluded that the QR Code-based attendance system with the RAD approach has been proven to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and security of the attendance system in schools.