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Persistent absentees as a percentage of all pupils without a statement (School Action) (10% or more sessions missed)
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Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of pupils defined as persistent absentees at all state-funded schools for Special Educational Needs (SEN) pupils without a statement (School Action), as a percentage of the number (headcount) of all pupils of the same SEN stage (including sole or dual main registrations and boarding pupils).
The Department for Education has recently reduced the threshold at which a pupil is classified as a persistent absentee. From 2015/16 this is now defined in terms of those with around 10 per cent overall absence (missing 46 or more sessions), down from around 15 per cent overall absence (64 or more sessions).The time series data for this metric has been recalculated using the new methodology
This is calculated as the number of enrolments classed as persistent absentees divided by the number of enrolments multiplied by 100.
School Action is when a class or subject teacher identifies that a pupil has Special Educational Needs and gives help that is extra to or different from that provided as part of the school's usual differentiated curriculum.
Schools include state-funded schools including schools maintained by the local authority (primary, middle and secondary), free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools, academies and special academies. Excludes general hospital schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved for SEN pupils.
Small numbers are suppressed according to the following rules: 1) Enrolment numbers at national and regional levels are rounded to the nearest 5. Local authority totals across school types are also rounded to the nearest 5 to prevent disclosure of any suppressed values. 2) Enrolment numbers of 1 or 2 are suppressed to protect pupil confidentiality as are any percentage calculated on these. 3) where any number is shown as 0, the original figure was also 0.
- Modified
- 09 Apr 2020
- Data last updated
- 09 Apr 2020
- Short label
- Persistent absentees - SEN pupils without a statement (School Action) (10% of sessions)
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Persistent absence rate
- Dataset
- Absence Rates and Pupils Defined as Persistent Absentees by Special Educational Needs
- Collection
- Pupil Absence in Schools in England
- Source
- Department for Education
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