Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 09 September 2024 - daily

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Published 23 January 2025

Last updated 23 January 2025

Daily 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 for all schools include estimates for non-response.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil attendance in schools
• Release: Week 2 2025
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • Attendance Date
  • Education Phase
• Time period: 2024 Week 37 to 2025 Week 2

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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	attendance_date	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
2024	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E08000003	Manchester	352	09/09/2024	Primary	135	44181	78965	79021	56	3792	1760	2032	1909	82813	37717	39562	77279	1686	1166	184	1	0	0	0	2	281	0	0	126	21	0	2	33	0	0	875	223	744	190	137	53315	95.42100878	4.578991221	2.125270187	2.453721034	1.407991499	0.222187338	1.056597394	0.89840967	0.269281393	0.229432577	0.00120754	0	0	0.00241508	0	0	0.152150025	0.339318706
2024	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000057	Northumberland	929	09/09/2024	Primary	126	16657	30900	30912	12	1128	653	475	211	32040	15250	15468	30718	182	478	75	0	0	0	2	0	80	0	0	18	10	0	0	0	0	2	291	29	147	8	127	21484	96.47940075	3.520599251	2.038077403	1.482521848	1.491885144	0.234082397	0.9082397	0.458801498	0.09051186	0.024968789	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.056179775	0.24968789
2024	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000006	East of England	E10000003	Cambridgeshire	873	09/09/2024	Primary	208	43788	82539	82750	211	2961	2090	871	611	85711	40827	41217	82044	495	1254	189	2	0	56	4	1	432	6	0	146	35	0	2	147	0	27	285	116	303	167	209	51677	96.54536757	3.454632428	2.438426806	1.016205621	1.463056084	0.220508453	0.332512746	0.353513551	0.135338521	0.194840802	0.002333423	0	0.065335838	0.001166711	0.007000268	0	0.170339863	0.504019321
2024	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E06000050	Cheshire West and Chester	896	09/09/2024	Primary	128	23496	44364	44503	139	1540	1028	512	335	46043	21955	22128	44083	281	654	126	2	0	32	12	3	164	0	2	33	53	0	40	42	0	4	305	54	136	17	125	26929	96.65530048	3.34469952	2.232695524	1.112003996	1.420411355	0.273657233	0.662424256	0.295376062	0.117281671	0.036922008	0.004343766	0	0.06950025	0.006515648	0	0.004343766	0.071672133	0.35618878
2024	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000026	Redbridge	317	09/09/2024	Primary	52	22521	41676	41700	24	2353	1221	1132	421	44053	20446	20838	41284	392	862	85	0	0	0	0	2	186	2	65	19	24	0	0	0	0	0	428	29	642	33	52	28787	94.65870656	5.341293442	2.771661408	2.569632034	1.956733934	0.192949402	0.971556988	1.457335482	0.065829796	0.074909768	0	0	0	0.004539986	0.004539986	0.147549543	0.043129866	0.422218691

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 57 variables

Variable name	Variable description
appointments_perc	Authorised appointments absence rate
approved_educational_activity	Sessions marked as approved educational activity
attendance_date	Attendance Date
attendance_perc	Attendance rate
auth_excluded_perc	Authorised exclusions absence rate

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