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Attendance Works

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Attendance Works - Preschool & Kindergarten

Attendance Works - Get Ready for 1st Grade!

Attendance Works - Elementary

Attendance Works - Middle School & High School

 

The most recent federal data show that in the 2020-21 school year, at least 14.7 million students nationwide were chronically absent. This means that chronic absence has almost doubled from the more than 8 million students, pre-Covid-19, who were missing so many days of school that they were academically at risk. Chronic absence — missing 10 percent or more of school days due to absence for any reason—excused, unexcused absences and suspensions—can translate into students having difficulty learning to read by the third-grade, achieving in middle school, and graduating from high school.