Statistics on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded schools were published by the Department this week. In 2024/25, the overall absence rate was 6.78%, down from 7.15% in 2023/24 but still above the pre-pandemic level of 4.73% in 2018/19.

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The monitor your school attendance tool can help you:

• identify trends
• identify pupils who may need support
• save time building attendance reports
• if you are a school, compare attendance within the local authority and nationally

You can use the data to discuss your school’s, trust’s or local authority’s current strategies to attendance. You can review their effectiveness and whether you need an alternative approach, in line with the working together to improve school attendance guidance.

Use Department for Education (DfE) published statistics to compare your attendance with data on local authority, regional and national attendance levels via the pupil attendance and absence in England dashboard.

Monitor your school attendance: user guide - GOV.UK