Attendance Works is a national and state initiative that promotes awareness of the important role that school attendance plays in achieving academic success. Attendance Work’s goal is to ensure that every district in the country not only tracks chronic absence data, but also partners with families and community agencies to intervene when attendance is a problem for children or particular schools.
Visit the Attendance Works website.
This webpage from The Hamilton Project allows website users to explore chronic absence data for the 2015-16 school year data across multiple levels. Hover, zoom in and out, and click around to investigate differences in chronic absence across states, between districts, and between schools in a district. Select student characteristics to see rates of chronic absence among particular student subpopulations. Clicking school characteristics allows the user to see rates of chronic absence by grade span and location.
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