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Percentage of persistent absentees in secondary schools (10% or more sessions missed) (9960) Metric type
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- This is the persistent absence rate in state-funded secondary schools. A pupil is classified as a persistent absentee if they miss 10 per cent or more of their own possible sessions. Therefore if an enrolment's overall absence rate is 10 per cent or higher they will be classified as persistently absent. Overall absence is the sum of authorised and unauthorised absence. One session is equal to half a day.
Parents of children of compulsory school age (aged 5 to 15 at the start of the school year) are required to ensure that they receive a suitable education by regular attendance at school or otherwise. The Department for Education reduced the threshold at which a pupil is classified as a persistent absentee in 2015/16 to 10 per cent overall absence (missing 46 or more sessions), down from 15 per cent overall absence (64 or more sessions).
Data are based on state-funded secondary (including maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies). Data are based on the geographical location of the school. Information relating to pupil absence counts the number of enrolments rather than the number of pupils.
Authorised absence is absence with permission from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes instances of absences for which a satisfactory explanation has been provided (for example, illness). Unauthorised absence is absence without permission from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences. Arriving late for school, after the register has closed, is recorded as unauthorised absence.
No data was published for 2019/20 academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the 2020/21 academic year, the persistent absence rate for each pupil was calculated using total sessions possible as the sum of possible sessions as recorded on the school census and sessions recorded as not attending in circumstances related to coronavirus.Data uploaded from DFE annual release. Other term time releases are available
- Modified
- 27 Feb 2024
- Data last updated
- 20 Mar 2023
- Short label
- Persistent absentees - secondary (10% of sessions)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Per cent
- Dataset
- Persistent absentees as a percentage of all pupils in secondary schools
- Collection
- Pupil Absence in Schools in England
- Source
- Department for Education
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