Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance between 02 January and 31 March 2024 - Spring term

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Published 2 May 2024

Last updated 2 May 2024

Spring term local authority, regional and national attendance between 2 January and 31 March 2024, 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 16 2024
• Number of rows: 493
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Authorised appointments absence rate
  • Authorised exclusions absence rate
  • Authorised holiday rate
  • Authorised illness absence rate
  • Authorised other absence rate
  • Authorised religious observance absence rate
  • Authorised study leave absence rate
  • Authorised traveller absence rate
  • Morning sessions
  • Number of enrolments in schools reporting
  • Number of schools reporting
  • Overall absence rate
  • Persistent absence rate
  • Sessions marked as absence
  • Sessions marked as approved education off site
  • Sessions marked as approved educational activity
  • Sessions marked as approved educational visit or trip
  • Sessions marked as approved interview
  • Sessions marked as approved sporting activity
  • Sessions marked as approved work experience
  • Sessions marked as attending (excluding late before registers closed)
  • Sessions marked as attending (including late before registers closed)
  • Sessions marked as authorised religious observance
  • Sessions marked as authorised absence
  • Sessions marked as authorised excluded
  • Sessions marked as authorised holiday
  • Sessions marked as authorised illness
  • Sessions marked as authorised medical or dental appointments
  • Sessions marked as authorised other
  • Sessions marked as authorised study leave
  • Sessions marked as authorised traveller absence
  • Sessions marked as dual registration
  • Sessions marked as late
  • Sessions marked as late before registers closed
  • Sessions marked as no reason yet
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised absence
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised holiday
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised late after registers closed
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised other
  • Sessions marked at attending (including approved educational activity)
  • Total number of enrolments from GIAS
  • Total number of schools from GIAS
  • Total possible sessions
  • Unauthorised absence rate
  • Unauthorised holiday absence rate
  • Unauthorised late absence rate
  • Unauthorised no reason yet absence rate
  • Unauthorised other absence rate
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2023/24 Spring term

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

academic_year	time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	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	pa_perc
202324	202324	Spring term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000005	West Midlands	E10000028	Staffordshire	860	Primary	271.6111111	48400.74074	4656470	4702311	45841	252622	205238	47384	47736	4954933	2292941	2322508	4615449	41021	175763	12143	103	0	412	2042	1432	13343	10449	2393	29	1733	33630	0	14948	6715	23312	2409	299	63690	94.90160614	5.098393863	4.142094353	0.95629951	3.547232627	0.245068904	0.301679155	0.47048063	0.13552151	0.048618215	0.002078736	0	0.008314946	0.041211455	0.028900492	0.269287193	17.32950636
202324	202324	Spring term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E06000062	West Northamptonshire	941	Primary	133.3103448	27394.84483	2893871	2917764	23893	164420	129395	35025	31147	3082184	1425293	1441072	2866365	27506	108873	8003	277	0	179	630	993	10439	6903	1791	36	2744	14210	0	9616	3641	20092	1676	148	35013	94.66547098	5.334529022	4.198159487	1.136369535	3.532332917	0.259653544	0.311986565	0.651875423	0.11813052	0.054377026	0.008987134	0	0.00580757	0.020440052	0.032217415	0.338688411	16.28892257
202324	202324	Spring term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000006	East of England	E10000015	Hertfordshire	919	Primary	334.1111111	69891.68519	6994263	7037193	42930	414924	338210	76714	81823	7452117	3437144	3487067	6924211	70052	278325	22203	439	3	1178	2918	1888	31256	5785	3005	209	8466	28466	4	21453	11771	37151	6339	400	102530	94.43213251	5.567867493	4.538441895	1.029425598	3.734844743	0.297942182	0.287877928	0.498529478	0.157955115	0.085063077	0.005890943	4.03E-05	0.015807589	0.039156658	0.025335083	0.41942444	17.28189943
202324	202324	Spring term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E08000024	Sunderland	394	Primary	69.18965517	14993.24138	1527456	1536652	9196	96194	73732	22462	18512	1632846	748124	762165	1510289	17167	63248	4677	29	0	475	850	295	4158	1445	3502	2	234	7515	0	6662	1345	12729	1726	81	23146	94.10881369	5.891186309	4.515551375	1.375634934	3.873482251	0.286432401	0.407999285	0.779559126	0.082371516	0.105705008	0.00177604	0	0.029090312	0.052056348	0.018066615	0.254647407	19.76040273
202324	202324	Spring term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E06000012	North East Lincolnshire	812	Primary	45.93103448	11238.89655	1217049	1224069	7020	74287	52280	22007	14010	1298356	598074	606963	1205037	12012	45396	3273	4	0	0	331	482	2794	753	2779	10	2009	4248	0	3961	1998	15784	264	47	13879	94.27837974	5.721620264	4.026630601	1.694989664	3.496421629	0.252088025	0.305078114	1.215691228	0.153886915	0.020333406	0.000308082	0	0	0.025493778	0.03712387	0.215195216	17.99811628

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 52 variables

Variable name	Variable description
appointments_perc	Authorised appointments absence rate
approved_educational_activity	Sessions marked as approved educational activity
attendance_perc	Attendance rate
auth_excluded_perc	Authorised exclusions absence rate
auth_grt_perc	Authorised traveller absence rate
auth_holiday_perc	Authorised holiday rate
auth_other_perc	Authorised other absence rate
auth_religious_perc	Authorised religious observance absence rate
auth_study_perc	Authorised study leave absence rate
authorised_absence	Sessions marked as authorised absence
authorised_absence_perc	Authorised absence rate
enrolments	Number of enrolments in schools reporting
illness_perc	Authorised illness absence rate
late_sessions	Sessions marked as late
num_schools	Number of schools reporting
overall_absence	Sessions marked as absence
overall_absence_perc	Overall absence rate
overall_attendance	Sessions marked at attending (including approved educational activity)
pa_perc	Persistent absence rate
possible_sessions	Total possible sessions
present_sessions	Sessions marked as attending (including late before registers closed)
reason_b_aea_education_off_site	Sessions marked as approved education off site
reason_c_authorised_other	Sessions marked as authorised other
reason_d_aea_dual_registration	Sessions marked as dual registration
reason_e_authorised_excluded	Sessions marked as authorised excluded
reason_g_unauthorised_holiday	Sessions marked as unauthorised holiday
reason_h_authorised_holiday	Sessions marked as authorised holiday
reason_i_authorised_illness	Sessions marked as authorised illness
reason_j_aea_interview	Sessions marked as approved interview
reason_l_present_late_before_registers_closed	Sessions marked as late before registers closed
reason_m_authorised_medical_dental	Sessions marked as authorised medical or dental appointments
reason_n_no_reason_yet	Sessions marked as no reason yet
reason_o_other_unauthorised	Sessions marked as unauthorised other
reason_p_aea_approved_sporting_activity	Sessions marked as approved sporting activity
reason_present	Sessions marked as attending (excluding late before registers closed)
reason_present_am	Morning sessions
reason_present_pm	Afternoon sessions
reason_r_authorised_religious_observance	Sessions marked as authorised religious observance
reason_s_authorised_study_leave	Sessions marked as authorised study leave
reason_t_authorised_grt_absence	Sessions marked as authorised traveller absence
reason_u_unauthorised_late_after_registers_closed	Sessions marked as unauthorised late after registers closed
reason_v_aea_educational_visit_trip	Sessions marked as approved educational visit or trip
reason_w_aea_work_experience	Sessions marked as approved work experience
school_type	School Type
total_enrolments	Total number of enrolments from GIAS
total_num_schools	Total number of schools from GIAS
unauth_hol_perc	Unauthorised holiday absence rate
unauth_late_registers_closed_perc	Unauthorised late absence rate
unauth_not_yet_perc	Unauthorised no reason yet absence rate
unauth_oth_perc	Unauthorised other absence rate
unauthorised_absence	Sessions marked as unauthorised absence
unauthorised_absence_perc	Unauthorised absence rate

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