Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 11 September 2023 - weekly

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Published 7 December 2023

Last updated 7 December 2023

Weekly 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 47 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2023 Week 37 to 2023 Week 47

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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	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	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West				Primary	1635	308037.8	2890391	2907451	17060	107376	76597	30779	19969	3014827	1430949	1442818	2873767	16624	54508	7354	67	7	471	1823	579	11788	3895	939	31	772	12359	3	11540	3345	13345	2549	1881	405858	96.4384026	3.561597398	2.540676463	1.020920935	1.807997606	0.243927761	0.382774866	0.442645631	0.11095164	0.084548798	0.00222235	0.000232186	0.015622787	0.060467815	0.019205082	0.391000877
2023	Week 37	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000007	London				Primary	1493.4	468610.8	4335794	4370602	34808	194873	109796	85077	54318	4565475	2120349	2164794	4285143	50651	73727	10624	178	118	208	1621	358	22961	10212	1929	6913	482	17201	0	23669	3667	46257	11484	1784	694551	95.73159419	4.268405807	2.404919532	1.863486275	1.614881256	0.232703059	0.518434555	1.013191398	0.08032023	0.251540092	0.003898828	0.002584616	0.004555933	0.035505616	0.007841462	0.502926859
2023	Week 37	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Primary	744.8	149919.2	1382978	1390630	7652	60208	34878	25330	11883	1450838	681372	690819	1372191	10787	26598	3186	52	0	513	1144	179	3206	557	1772	11	578	6506	0	14831	1096	8235	1168	860	214259	95.85012248	4.149877519	2.40398997	1.745887549	1.833285315	0.219597226	1.022236804	0.567602999	0.075542549	0.080505198	0.003584136	0	0.035358875	0.078850981	0.012337697	0.22097574
2023	Week 37	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East				Primary	2308.6	545300.4	5143273	5175043	31770	196061	135364	60697	37668	5371104	2542911	2567939	5110850	32423	95461	12702	76	5	910	2310	821	23078	6208	1410	1268	1136	23156	2	21766	5245	28959	4727	2596	716998	96.34970762	3.650292379	2.520226754	1.130065625	1.777306863	0.236487694	0.405242572	0.539162898	0.097652177	0.088007978	0.001414979	9.30907314399423e-05	0.016942513	0.043007918	0.015285498	0.42966958
2023	Week 37	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Primary	2273.4	497746.8	4671389	4693058	21669	177924	106732	71192	50232	4870982	2292226	2334156	4626382	45007	78319	11161	101	0	704	2723	722	12982	3345	2094	55	928	17340	1	36289	5225	25701	3977	2428	633583	96.34726632	3.652733679	2.191180341	1.461553338	1.607868803	0.229132442	0.74500378	0.527634879	0.107267898	0.081646781	0.002073504	0	0.014452938	0.055902485	0.014822473	0.266517101

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 51 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

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