Chronic Absenteeism: All students should be able to attend school without barriers in order to have the opportunity to prosper.
Insights & Analyses
- In the 2022-2023 school year, schools nationally reported that 27 percent of students were chronically absent.
- Native American and Pacific Islander high school students at high-poverty schools had the highest rates of chronic absenteeism at 56 percent and 51 percent, respectively.
- Among states, Wyoming schools with high poverty levels had the highest rate of chronically absent students (70 percent).
- Across all grade levels, Black students in high-poverty schools had a chronic absenteeism rate of 40 percent, nearly twice the rate of their counterparts in low-poverty schools (21 percent).
