Data set from Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Table 1B - Daily attendance in state schools during COVID 19

Not the latest data

Published 21 September 2021

Last updated 21 September 2021

This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term and Easter dates. Half term includes 19th October - 23rd October 2020, 2nd November 2020, and 15 February - 19 February 2021. Easter dates include 29 March 2021 - 19 April 2021.

Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.

Further details on the column headings can be found in the “Table 1b variable additions and removal log” ancillary file.

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Data set details

• Theme: COVID-19
• Publication: Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
• Release: Week 38 2021
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • number of children of critical workers attending
  • number of fully open settings
  • number of open settings including inset
• Filters:
  • date
  • phase
• Time period: 2020 Week 37 to 2021 Week 9

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	date	phase	response_rate	number_responded	number_open_including_inset	proportion_open_including_inset	number_fully_open_settings	proportion_fully_open_settings	number_of_settings_with_one_or_more_students_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_settings	proportion_of_settings_with_one_or_more_students_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_settings	number_students_attending	proportion_students_attending	overall_attendance_rate_excl_year_11_13_students_not_in_attendance_adjusted	number_students_attending_fully_open_settings	proportion_students_attending_fully_open_settings	number_students_with_sw_attending	proportion_students_with_sw_attending	number_students_with_sw_attending_fully_open_settings	proportion_students_with_sw_attending_in_fully_open_settings	number_students_with_ehcp_attending	proportion_students_with_ehcp_attending	number_students_with_ehcp_attending_fully_open_settings	proportion_students_with_ehcp_attending_fully_open_settings	number_students_eligible_fsm_attending	proportion_students_eligible_fsm_attending	number_children_of_critical_workers_attending	number_of_otherwise_vulnerable_students_attending	total_students_absent_from_open_settings_with_a_suspected_case_of_COVID19	proportion_students_absent_with_a_suspected_case_of_COVID19	proportion_students_absent_with_a_suspected_case_of_COVID19_excl_year_11_13_students_who_are_not_in_attendance_adjusted	total_students_absent_from_open_settings_with_a_confirmed_case_of_COVID19	proportion_students_absent_with_a_confirmed_case_of_COVID19	proportion_students_absent_with_a_confirmed_case_of_COVID19_excl_year_11_13_students_who_are_not_in_attendance_adjusted	total_students_isolating_NHS_track_and_trace	proportion_students_isolating_NHS_track_and_trace	total_students_absent_due_to_attendance_restrictions	proportion_students_absent_due_to_attendance_restrictions	total_students_absent_other_isolation	proportion_students_absent_other_isolation	total_students_absent_from_open_settings_due_to_potential_contact_with_case_of_COVID19_inside_setting	proportion_students_absent_from_open_settings_due_to_potential_contact_with_case_of_COVID19_inside_setting	proportion_students_isolating_due_to_potential_contact_with_case_of_COVID19_inside_setting_excl_year_11_13_students_who_are_not_in_attendance_adjusted	total_students_absent_from_open_settings_due_to_potential_contact_with_case_of_COVID19_outside_setting	proportion_students_absent_from_open_settings_due_to_potential_contact_with_case_of_COVID19_outside_setting	proportion_students_isolating_due_to_potential_contact_with_case_of_COVID19_outside_setting_excl_year_11_13_students_who_are_not_in_attendance_adjusted	total_students_not_attending_because_setting_is_closed	total_students_unable_to_attend_because_setting_is_closed_due_to_COVID19_excl_year_11_13_students_who_are_not_in_attendance_adjusted	proportion_students_not_attending_because_setting_is_closed	proportion_students_unable_to_attend_because_setting_is_closed_due_to_COVID19_excl_year_11_13_students_who_are_not_in_attendance_adjusted	proportion_students_absent_for_all_covid_reasons
2020	Week 37	National	E92000001	England	09/09/2020	All state-funded schools	71	15300	21600	99.9	19700	90.9	-	-	7148000	87	-	6578000	90.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 37	National	E92000001	England	10/09/2020	All state-funded schools	73	15800	21600	99.9	20000	92.4	-	-	7231000	88	-	6747000	90	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 37	National	E92000001	England	11/09/2020	All state-funded schools	73	15700	21600	99.9	20100	92.7	-	-	7130000	86.8	-	6699000	88.7	133000	82.2	125000	84	232000	80.9	217000	83.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 38	National	E92000001	England	14/09/2020	All state-funded schools	75	16200	21600	99.9	20500	94.8	-	-	7118000	86.4	-	6768000	87.4	133000	82.2	126000	83.2	231000	80.7	218000	82.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 38	National	E92000001	England	15/09/2020	All state-funded schools	76	16400	21600	99.9	20400	94.4	-	-	7145000	86.7	-	6745000	87.7	133000	81.8	125000	83	231000	80.5	217000	82.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 50 variables

Variable name	Variable description
date	date
number_children_of_critical_workers_attending	number of children of critical workers attending
number_fully_open_settings	number of fully open settings
number_of_otherwise_vulnerable_students_attending	number of otherwise vulnerable students attending
number_of_settings_with_one_or_more_students_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_settings	number of settings with one or more students self isolating due to COVID contact within settings

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Footnotes

1. The purpose of this data collection is primarily to understand attendance and teacher availability. This data is reported directly by schools via DfE's daily education settings survey. It is not the primary source of data on infection, incidence and COVID-19 cases overall.
2. Off-site provision for pupils in year 11 and 13 impacts attendance estimates during the summer term. Prior to June 7 commentary was more focused on COVID-19 related absence to give the clearest picture of the impact of the pandemic on pupil attendance. Between June 7 and 16 July 2021 attendance is adjusted to exclude year 11-13 pupils identified as not in attendance because they are off-site for approved purposes.
3. There are only a small number of special post 16 settings therefore the data is expected to be variable and sensitive to changes in one or more settings.
4. All national level figures are adjusted for non-response. Regional and local authority level figures are based on responding schools only. See accompanying document for full methodology.
5. The number of students on-site is calculated using a grossing methodology. This includes reported attendance from responding colleges and estimates of attendance in non-responding colleges. Two further education colleges are excluded from these metrics due to missing data used for the grossing methodology. See the methodology for further information.
6. Secondary schools and colleges were given flexibility to phase the return of pupils between 8 and 12 March 2021 to manage testing and the return of pupils. This impacted attendance rates during the week commencing 8 March 2021.
7. Figures for independent schools are unlikely to be representative. We looked at a sample of non-responding school websites across different phases to assess whether they were open to children of key workers and vulnerable children. This was to enable us to assess whether non-responding schools were as likely to be open as the responding schools. For independent schools, we found evidence that non-responding schools were more likely to be closed than responding schools. Open rates and attendance rates for independent schools are likely to be lower than reported here.
8. A small proportion of schools (less than 1%) were known to be on half term between 24 and 28 May and have been excluded from our estimates.
9. All proportions are rounded to 1 decimal place. Where open rates are rounded to 100.0%, a small number of settings may have reported that they were closed.
10. From 12 October 2020, schools were asked to exclude nursery children from their submission. A corresponding decrease was observed in submitted number on roll in schools with nurseries.

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