Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 09 September 2024 - year to date

Not the latest data

Published 9 January 2025

Last updated 9 January 2025

Year to date local authority, regional and national attendance since 09 September 2024, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Totals include estimates for non-response.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil attendance in schools
• Release: Week 51 2024
• Number of rows: 494
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Authorised appointments absence rate
  • Authorised exclusions absence rate
  • Authorised illness absence rate
  • Authorised interview rate
  • Authorised mobile child absence rate
  • Authorised other absence rate
  • Authorised part-time timetable rate
  • Authorised regulated performance rate
  • Authorised religious observance absence rate
  • Authorised study leave absence rate
  • Morning sessions
  • Number of enrolments in schools reporting
  • Number of schools reporting
  • Overall absence rate
  • Sessions marked as absence
  • Sessions marked as approved education off site
  • Sessions marked as approved educational activity
  • Sessions marked as approved educational provision
  • 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 interview
  • Sessions marked as authorised medical or dental appointments
  • Sessions marked as authorised mobile child absence
  • Sessions marked as authorised other
  • Sessions marked as authorised part-time timetable
  • Sessions marked as authorised regulated performance
  • Sessions marked as authorised study leave
  • 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:
  • Education Phase
• Time period: 2024/25

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	education_phase	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_mobile_child	reason_h_authorised_holiday	reason_e_authorised_excluded	reason_c_authorised_other	reason_c1_authorised_regulated_performance	reason_j1_authorised_interview	reason_c2_authorised_temp_reduced_timetable	reason_b_aea_education_off_site	reason_j_aea_interview	reason_p_aea_approved_sporting_activity	reason_v_aea_educational_visit_trip	reason_w_aea_work_experience	reason_k_aea_education_arranged_by_la	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_mob_perc	auth_excluded_perc	auth_performance_perc	auth_interview_perc	auth_part_time_perc	auth_other_perc	time_identifier
202425	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				Primary	1738.157143	376795.6714	48237913	48560289	322376	2669206	1801292	867914	652711	51229495	23618555	24055511	47674066	563847	1458320	128137	1889	55	5049	1314	15839	135925	1420	749	52595	36500	13	27329	254458	13	4063	355107	88864	392617	31326	1763	462551	94.78970855	5.210291454	3.51612289	1.694168564	2.846641373	0.250123488	0.693169043	0.766388581	0.173462573	0.061148368	0.003687329	0.00010736	0.009855651	0.030917736	0.002771841	0.001462048	0.102665466	0.265325668	Academic year
202425	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East				Primary	2545.371429	595991.2	76724249	77333913	609664	4206420	3220376	986044	885374	81540333	37715340	38256397	75971737	752512	2554068	211225	5225	585	9946	3010	23956	268509	3587	12749	127516	70792	326	57638	471520	26	9362	364480	132862	435264	53438	2589	704385	94.84130142	5.158698579	3.949427089	1.20927149	3.132275656	0.259043583	0.446993514	0.533802088	0.162940222	0.065535666	0.006407872	0.000717436	0.012197645	0.029379326	0.00439905	0.015635207	0.156383958	0.329295933	Academic year
202425	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000005	West Midlands				Primary	1750.371429	417809.8857	53468398	53803860	335462	3075661	2214878	860783	762132	56879521	26133970	26660869	52794839	673559	1831883	123738	2637	100	4880	1131	20432	167312	1487	2568	57785	37631	47	16985	277101	6	3692	292278	88573	438458	41474	1766	498014	94.59267422	5.407325775	3.893981456	1.513344319	3.220637178	0.217544026	0.513854538	0.77085389	0.155720369	0.072915523	0.004636115	0.00017581	0.008579538	0.03592154	0.002614298	0.004514806	0.101591924	0.294151563	Academic year
202425	National	E92000001	England						Primary	16267.17143	3668137.914	470269663	473628655	3358992	25840072	18838216	7001856	6259748	499468727	230316395	234484007	464800402	5469261	15175600	1245314	27291	2962	58538	14365	149814	1539439	19125	61540	543295	411648	1964	320572	2573696	144	50968	2593623	790487	3226881	390865	16676	4467071	94.82648851	5.173511494	3.771650752	1.401860742	3.038348385	0.249327722	0.519276355	0.646062671	0.158265564	0.078256151	0.005464006	0.00059303	0.011720053	0.029994671	0.003829069	0.012321092	0.108774578	0.308215293	Academic year
202425	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000005	West Midlands	E08000025	Birmingham	330	Primary	289.2714286	90900.64286	11554327	11605637	51310	713208	481851	231357	209581	12318845	5601341	5766844	11368185	186142	407035	27112	463	10	6	39	5733	32467	266	242	8478	5104	11	2206	43565	0	424	78347	23439	115469	14102	288	107332	94.21043125	5.789568746	3.911494949	1.878073797	3.304165285	0.220085568	0.635993066	0.937336252	0.190269461	0.114475018	0.003758469	8.11764414602181e-05	4.87058648761308e-05	0.046538454	0.002159293	0.00196447	0.068821387	0.263555552	Academic year

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 56 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_interview_perc	Authorised interview rate
auth_mob_perc	Authorised mobile child absence rate
auth_other_perc	Authorised other absence rate
auth_part_time_perc	Authorised part-time timetable rate
auth_performance_perc	Authorised regulated performance 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
education_phase	Education Phase
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)
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_c1_authorised_regulated_performance	Sessions marked as authorised regulated performance
reason_c2_authorised_temp_reduced_timetable	Sessions marked as authorised part-time timetable
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_j1_authorised_interview	Sessions marked as authorised interview
reason_k_aea_education_arranged_by_la	Sessions marked as approved educational provision
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_mobile_child	Sessions marked as authorised mobile child 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
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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