Persistent Absence#
This tab is designed to show senior leaders at the school a picture of the students with an attendance percentage that represents persistent absence. It provides detailed and summarised information allowing school leaders to identify issues and intervene before they become more serious.
Report Views#
There are 3 views available for this data, each shows a variation of the persistent absence data. The school can use these to focus on different areas of student absences and target reasons for absence that they feel need more attention.
Overall#
The overall view shows persistent absence calculated while treating both authorised and unauthorised absence codes as codes that represent an absence. This is what you would normally consider to represent your persistent absence rate.
Year Groups#
You can use the filters at the top of the screen to choose which year groups you want to view. Once selected the report will show the content for those groups. You’ll be able to see a summary comparing the groups that includes:
Name
The name of the year group.
Number of Students
How many students are included in the calculation. This will include any student who was ever on roll within the selected academic year.
Students with Persistent Absence
How many students in the group are classified as having a persistent absence.
Persistent Absence %
The calculated persistent absence percentage for the group.
View Year Group Overview
Click the View Year Group Overview button to be taken to the year groups overview dashboard.
Students
Click the Students button to show the student breakdown for that group.
Students#
Each group shows a full list of students with an attendance percentage lower than 90% when applying that views calculation. You can see the following information:
Student
The forename, surname, school identifier and form group of the student.
Present
The number of individual present marks that the student has received.
Approved Educational Activity (AEA)
The number of individual AEA marks that the student has received.
Authorised Absences
The number of individual authorised absence marks that the student has received.
Unauthorised Absences
The number of individual unauthorised absence marks that the student has received.
Late Marks
The number of individual late marks that the student has received.
Possible Marks
The total number of possible marks that the student could have received. This does not include marks that have not yet had a code specified as these would unfairly skew the analytics shown.
Attendance %
The student attendance percentage.
You can click the dashboard button next to the corresponding student to see their attendance information in more detail.
Tip
Any student that was on roll at any point during the academic year is included these analytics.