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- Pupil absence in schools in England
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- Data set
- 06 (termly) - Absence rates by pupil characteristic - Termly data
Step 3 Choose Countries
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- England
Step 4 Choose time period
- Time period
- 2018/19 Autumn term to 2020/21 Summer term
Step 5 Choose your filters
- Indicators
- Overall absence rate
- Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
- Characteristic
- Total
- School type
- Total
- Special
- State-funded primary
- State-funded secondary
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This data is not from the latest releaseView latest data: Academic year 2022/23WarningSome rows and columns are not shown in this table as the data does not exist in the underlying file.'06 (termly) - Absence rates by pupil characteristic - Termly data' for Special, State-funded primary and State-funded secondary in England between 2018/19 Autumn term and 2020/21 Summer term 2018/19 Autumn term 2018/19 Spring term 2018/19 Summer term 2019/20 Autumn term 2020/21 Autumn term 2020/21 Spring term 2020/21 Summer term Overall absence rate Total 4.3% 4.8% 5.2% 4.9% 4.7% 3.3% 5.8% Special 9.7% 10.5% 10.3% 10.5% 10.6% 25.5% 11.0% State-funded primary 3.7% 4.1% 4.4% 4.3% 3.7% 2.7% 4.4% State-funded secondary 4.9% 5.6% 6.2% 5.6% 5.7% 3.2% 7.5% Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances Total 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 7.0% 57.5% 4.3% Special 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 9.7% 22.3% 3.9% State-funded primary 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 5.5% 52.2% 3.8% State-funded secondary 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 8.7% 65.5% 5.1% Footnotes
- Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances are included as possible sessions in 2020/21 only, but not as an absence within absence rates.
- Total includes state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Data for special schools is available from 2016/17 to present.
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- Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England, Academic year 2022/23
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