School attendance down

Interesting stats on school attendance and truancy.

  • Regular attendance rate down from 63% in 2017 to 57.7% in 2019
  • Unjustified absence rate up from 4% to 4.7%
  • Maori regular attendance rate down from 50% in 2017 to 43.8% in 2019
  • Pasifika regular attendance rate down from 51.7% in 2017 to 44.7% in 2019
  • Asian regular attendance rate down from 73.4% in 2017 to 68.9% in 2019

The attendance rate has been falling since 2015 it seems. I would have thought it would be an educational priority to increase it as if people aren’t at school, then of course they aren’t learning.

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