characteristic

school_type

sess_overall_percent

enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent

Academic year 2022/23

Overall absence rate and persistent absence rate by school type in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools, autumn and spring terms combined 2018/19 to 2022/23

Absence rates by school type autumn and spring terms combined 2018/19 to 2022/23

Overall absence rate and persistent absence rate in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools by term between 2018/19 Autumn term and 2022/23 Spring term

Absence rates by term between 2018/19 Autumn term and 2022/23 Spring term

Overall absence rate and persistent absence rate by region in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools, 2022/23 Autumn and spring terms combined

Absence rates by region 2022/23 Autumn and spring terms combined

Overall absence rate and persistent absence rate by local authority in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools for 2022/23 Autumn and spring terms

Absence rates by local authority for 2022/23 Autumn and spring terms combined

Absence rates in state-funded alternative provision between 2018/19 and 2022/23 autumn and spring terms combined

Absence rates in state-funded alternative provision between 2018/19 and 2022/23

Absence rates by reason in state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools,  2018/19 to 2022/23 Autumn and spring terms combined

Absence rates by reason from 2018/19 to 2022/23 Autumn and spring terms combined

sess_authorised_percent

sess_authorised

sess_overall

enrolments_pa_10_exact

enrolments

sess_possible

sess_unauthorised

sess_unauthorised_percent

sess_authorised_percent_pa_10_exact

sess_authorised_pa_10_exact

sess_overall_pa_10_exact

sess_possible_pa_10_exact

sess_unauthorised_pa_10_exact

sess_overall_percent_pa_10_exact

sess_unauthorised_percent_pa_10_exact

sess_auth_holiday

sess_auth_other

sess_auth_totalreasons

sess_auth_excluded

sess_auth_ext_holiday

sess_auth_illness

sess_unauth_late

sess_auth_appointments

sess_unauth_noyet

sess_overall_totalreasons

sess_auth_religious

sess_auth_study

sess_auth_traveller

sess_unauth_holiday

sess_unauth_other

sess_unauth_totalreasons

sess_y_exceptional

sess_x_covid

Absence information for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.&nbsp;

Absence rates by geographic level - autumn and spring term combined

Absence information for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15. Includes school level data.

Absence rates by geographic level - school level - autumn and spring term combined

Termly absence information for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.

Absence rates by geographic level - termly

Absence information for full academic years for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.

Absence rates by geographic level - full academic years

Absence information for full academic years for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15. Includes school level data.

Absence rates by geographic level - school level - full academic years

Absence information by characteristics for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.&nbsp;Characteristics included are gender, year group, free school meal eligibility, SEN provision, SEN type of need, ethnicity and language.

Absence rates by pupil characteristic - autumn and spring term combined

Absence information for the full academic year, by pupil characteristics including SEN, FSM, language, year group, gender and ethnicity for England.&nbsp;

Absence rates by pupil characteristic - full academic years

Termly absence information by characteristics for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.&nbsp;Characteristics included are gender, year group, free school meal eligibility, SEN provision, SEN type of need, ethnicity and language.

Absence rates by pupil characteristic - termly

Absence information for state-funded alternative provision (including pupil referral units, alternative provision academies and free schools).&nbsp;

Absence rates in state-funded alternative provision - autumn and spring term combined

Absence rates for state-funded alternative provision (includes pupil referral units, alternative provision academies and alternative provision free schools

Absence rates in state-funded alternative provision - full academic years

The number of pupil enrolments by their absence in the term as a percentage of possible sessions. Covers overall absence, authorised absence and unauthorised absence.&nbsp;Data by one percent bands.&nbsp;

Absence rates as a percentage of possible sessions by band - autumn and spring term combined

The number of pupil enrolments by overall, authorised and unauthorised absence percentage point bands.

Absence rates as a percentage of possible sessions by band - full academic years

Overall absence for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools for pupils aged 4.&nbsp;

Absence rates for four year olds - autumn and spring term combined

Overall absence for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools for pupils aged 4.&nbsp;Includes school level data.

Absence rates for four year olds - school level - autumn and spring term combined

The number of enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence.&nbsp;

Enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence - autumn and spring term combined

The number of enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence.&nbsp;

	Enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence - full academic years

The number of enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence. Includes school level data.

	Enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence - school level - autumn and spring term combined

The number of enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence. Includes school level data.

	Enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence - school level - full academic years

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Children in need and child protection

Children looked after

Children's social work workforce

Outcomes for children in social care

Secure children's homes

Serious incident notifications

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Attendance

CO2 monitors

Confirmed cases reported by Higher Education providers

Devices

Testing

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Destinations of key stage 4 and 16-18 pupils

NEET and participation

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Childcare and early years

Early years foundation stage profile

Early years surveys

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Local authority and school finance

Student loan forecasts

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Further education and skills

Further education outcomes

Further education workforce

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Education exports

Foundation years

Higher education graduate employment and earnings

Higher level learners in England

Participation measures in higher education

Widening participation in higher education

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

Academy transfers

Admission appeals

Elective home education and children missing education

Exclusions

Parental responsibility measures

Pupil absence

Pupil projections

School and pupil numbers

School applications

School capacity

Special educational needs (SEN)

Young offenders

School and college outcomes and performance

16 to 19 attainment

GCSEs (key stage 4)

Key stage 1

Key stage 2

Multi-academy trust performance measures

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Initial teacher training (ITT)

School workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

	2018/19 Autumn and spring term	2020/21 Autumn and spring term	2021/22 Autumn and spring term	2022/23 Autumn and spring term	2018/19 Autumn and spring term	2020/21 Autumn and spring term	2021/22 Autumn and spring term	2022/23 Autumn and spring term
	Overall absence rate				Percentage of persistent absentees - 10% or more sessions missed
Year 1 and below	4.4%	3.2%	6.6%	6.8%	10.1%	8.0%	20.2%	21.1%
Year 2	3.9%	3.2%	6.1%	6.0%	8.1%	7.6%	17.5%	17.6%
Year 3	3.7%	3.2%	6.0%	5.7%	7.6%	7.7%	16.8%	16.0%
Year 4	3.8%	3.4%	6.1%	5.7%	7.7%	8.1%	17.3%	16.0%
Year 5	3.8%	3.5%	6.3%	5.8%	8.0%	8.5%	18.3%	16.3%
Year 6	4.0%	3.7%	6.5%	6.0%	8.2%	9.1%	19.2%	16.9%
Year 7	4.1%	3.7%	7.0%	6.6%	9.0%	9.0%	20.5%	18.5%
Year 8	5.0%	4.6%	8.2%	8.2%	12.0%	11.7%	25.5%	24.3%
Year 9	5.6%	5.1%	9.1%	9.3%	13.8%	13.0%	28.6%	27.4%
Year 10	6.0%	5.4%	9.8%	10.0%	15.3%	14.1%	30.2%	28.9%
Year 11	6.1%	5.7%	10.2%	10.2%	15.2%	14.7%	30.3%	28.2%
Year 12 and above	6.0%	5.8%	10.0%	9.6%	16.0%	18.4%	32.2%	32.1%

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