Data set from The link between absence and attainment at KS2 and KS4

Key stage 4 attainment by absence percentage point

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Published 6 May 2022

Last updated 6 May 2022

This file contains overall absence percentage point bands and relates to attainment at key stage 4.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: The link between absence and attainment at KS2 and KS4
• Release: Academic year 2018/19
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number eligible pupils
  • Number of pupils who achieved all components of the English Baccalaureate grades 9 to 5
  • Number of pupils who achieved grade 9 to 4 in English and maths
• Filters:
  • Overall absence rate
  • Overall absence rate groupings
• Time period: 2018/19

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	version	school_type	key_stage	overall_absence_percent	overall_absence_percent_groups	total_number_of_pupils_at_the_end_of_key_stage_4	number_of_pupils_who_achieved_grades_9_to_4_in_English_and_maths	number_of_pupils_who_achieved_grades_9_to_5_in_English_and_maths	number_of_pupils_who_achieved_all_components_of_the_English_Baccalaureate_grades_9_to_5	percentage_of_pupils_who_achieved_grades_9_to_4_in_English_and_maths	percentage_of_pupils_who_achieved_grades_9_to_5_in_English_and_maths	percentage_of_pupils_who_achieved_all_components_of_the_English_Baccalaureate_grades_9_to_5
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Final	State funded mainstream schools	Key stage 4	Total	Total	488165	329827	222234	89282	67.6	45.5	18.3
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Final	State funded mainstream schools	Key stage 4	0	Total	11143	9325	7402	3783	83.7	66.4	33.9
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Final	State funded mainstream schools	Key stage 4	0>-<1	Total	53150	43270	33273	15557	81.4	62.6	29.3
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Final	State funded mainstream schools	Key stage 4	1-<2	Total	70969	56222	41245	18180	79.2	58.1	25.6
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Final	State funded mainstream schools	Key stage 4	2-<3	Total	69157	52792	37202	15342	76.3	53.8	22.2

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
number_of_pupils_who_achieved_all_components_of_the_English_Baccalaureate_grades_9_to_5	Number of pupils who achieved all components of the English Baccalaureate grades 9 to 5
number_of_pupils_who_achieved_grades_9_to_4_in_English_and_maths	Number of pupils who achieved grade 9 to 4 in English and maths
number_of_pupils_who_achieved_grades_9_to_5_in_English_and_maths	Number of pupils who achieved grades 9 to 5 in English and maths
overall_absence_percent	Overall absence rate
overall_absence_percent_groups	Overall absence rate groupings

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Footnotes

1. Includes data for pupils in state-funded mainstream schools.
2. Overall absence is calculated over all of KS4. This is equivalent to years 10 and 11 over academic years 2017/18 to 2018/19. Only pupils for whom valid absence data exists for all academic years have been included.
3. Enrolment level absence information has been aggregated to pupil level using a unique pupil identifier, summing all absence and possible session data for each pupil regardless of which school the sessions were accrued at. See methodology.

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