Understanding Attendance
Discover the barriers to school attendance and the strategies you can put in place to improve outcomes for all your children.
Addressing the drivers of pupil absence
This academic year, 27.8% of secondary school students and 19.7% of primary school pupils are identified as persistently absent.*
To address this, we have launched Understanding Attendance, a project helping schools and trusts to identify the underlying drivers of pupil absence in their setting, and supporting them to assess the impact of their interventions.
Understanding Attendance provides the tools to tailor and target your approach, and see where your support for pupils can make the biggest impact on attendance next year.
We will publish a report on our findings soon. In the meantime to learn more on how to take part in the attendance study, please click the download button below.
What's inside
By taking part in this diagnostic study, over the next two terms you will be able to:
- Understand the drivers of pupils absence in your setting using nationally benchmarked tools
- Select the measures most relevant to your setting to create short pupil-facing diagnostic
- Access live reports on our platform
- Interpret and use your data with our 1:1 support to inform next steps
We believe that, when done well, meaningful impact evaluation can help drive meaningful decision making to support you to do more of what is working best, and less of what is not!
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