Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 11 September 2023 - daily

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Published 7 March 2024

Last updated 7 March 2024

Daily local authority, regional and national attendance since 11 September 2023, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Totals for all schools are also included that include estimates for non-response.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil attendance in schools
• Release: Week 8 2024
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • Attendance Date
  • School Type
• Time period: 2023 Week 37 to 2024 Week 8

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	attendance_date	school_type	num_schools	enrolments	present_sessions	overall_attendance	approved_educational_activity	overall_absence	authorised_absence	unauthorised_absence	late_sessions	possible_sessions	reason_present_am	reason_present_pm	reason_present	reason_l_present_late_before_registers_closed	reason_i_authorised_illness	reason_m_authorised_medical_dental	reason_r_authorised_religious_observance	reason_s_authorised_study_leave	reason_t_authorised_grt_absence	reason_h_authorised_holiday	reason_e_authorised_excluded	reason_c_authorised_other	reason_b_aea_education_off_site	reason_d_aea_dual_registration	reason_j_aea_interview	reason_p_aea_approved_sporting_activity	reason_v_aea_educational_visit_trip	reason_w_aea_work_experience	reason_g_unauthorised_holiday	reason_u_unauthorised_late_after_registers_closed	reason_o_other_unauthorised	reason_n_no_reason_yet	total_num_schools	total_enrolments	attendance_perc	overall_absence_perc	authorised_absence_perc	unauthorised_absence_perc	illness_perc	appointments_perc	unauth_hol_perc	unauth_oth_perc	unauth_late_registers_closed_perc	unauth_not_yet_perc	auth_religious_perc	auth_study_perc	auth_grt_perc	auth_holiday_perc	auth_excluded_perc	auth_other_perc
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E06000064	Westmorland and Furness	943	11/09/2023	Primary	114	11644	22414	22431	17	676	430	246	126	23107	11092	11206	22298	116	315	44	0	0	0	11	0	60	17	4	0	0	0	0	184	10	47	5	121	15417	97.07447959	2.925520405	1.86090795	1.064612455	1.363223266	0.190418488	0.796295495	0.203401567	0.043276929	0.021638465	0	0	0	0.047604622	0	0.259661574
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	E10000014	Hampshire	850	11/09/2023	Primary	374	79697	152922	153618	696	4921	3720	1201	828	158539	75994	76268	152262	660	2569	358	0	0	51	151	7	584	79	28	1	4	612	0	502	168	431	100	423	105674	96.89603189	3.103968109	2.346425801	0.757542308	1.620421474	0.225811945	0.316641331	0.271857398	0.105967617	0.063075962	0	0	0.032168741	0.095244703	0.004415317	0.36836362
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E10000008	Devon	878	11/09/2023	Primary	281	45476	83592	84128	536	2682	1904	778	515	86810	41436	41744	83180	412	1294	226	0	0	24	47	10	303	139	15	0	1	396	0	219	103	375	81	307	55313	96.91049418	3.089505817	2.193295703	0.896210114	1.490611681	0.260338671	0.252275084	0.431977883	0.118649925	0.093307223	0	0	0.027646584	0.054141228	0.01151941	0.349038129
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000001	Hartlepool	805	11/09/2023	Primary	30	6667	12434	12476	42	565	265	300	104	13041	6130	6209	12339	95	216	21	0	0	0	4	2	22	17	16	0	0	25	0	184	9	93	14	30	8486	95.66751016	4.33248984	2.032052757	2.300437083	1.6563147	0.161030596	1.410934744	0.713135496	0.069013112	0.107353731	0	0	0	0.030672494	0.015336247	0.168698719
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000035	Leeds	383	11/09/2023	Primary	205	54927	101713	102210	497	4326	1964	2362	939	106536	50093	50806	100899	814	1359	227	0	0	4	33	5	336	148	40	1	2	346	0	1218	125	765	254	221	72208	95.93940077	4.060599234	1.843508298	2.217090936	1.275625141	0.213073515	1.143275513	0.718067132	0.117331231	0.238417061	0	0	0.003754599	0.030975445	0.004693249	0.315386348

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 52 variables

Variable name	Variable description
appointments_perc	Authorised appointments absence rate
approved_educational_activity	Sessions marked as approved educational activity
attendance_date	Attendance Date
attendance_perc	Attendance rate
auth_excluded_perc	Authorised exclusions absence rate

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