Persistent Absence#
This tab is designed to show heads of year at the school a picture of the students with an attendance percentage that represents persistent absence. It provides detailed and summarised information allowing you 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.
Students#
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.
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.