school_type

sess_overall_percent

enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent

North East

North West

Yorkshire and The Humber

East Midlands

West Midlands

East of England

South East

South West

Academic year 2023/24

Includes overall and persistent absence rates by local authority, autumn term 2020/21 to 2022/23

Absence rates by local authority, autumn term 2020/21 to 2022/23

Includes overall absence rate, authorised and unauthorised absence rates, and rate of not attending due to COVID circumstances, by school type, autumn 2018/19 to autumn 2022/23

Absence rates by school type

Table showing rates of overall absence, authorised and unauthorised absence and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances or each term, from Autumn 2018/19 to Autumn 2022/23

Termly absence rates by school type, Autumn 2018/19 to Autumn 2022/23

sess_authorised_percent

sess_authorised

sess_overall

enrolments_pa_10_exact

enrolments

num_schools

sess_possible

sess_unauthorised

sess_unauthorised_percent

enrolments_pa_50_exact

enrolments_pa_50_exact_percent

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_auth_holiday_rate

sess_auth_other_rate

sess_auth_totalreasons_rate

sess_auth_excluded_rate

sess_auth_ext_holiday_rate

sess_auth_illness_rate

sess_unauth_late_rate

sess_auth_appointments_rate

sess_unauth_noyet_rate

sess_overall_totalreasons_rate

sess_auth_religious_rate

sess_auth_study_rate

sess_auth_traveller_rate

sess_unauth_holiday_rate

sess_unauth_other_rate

sess_unauth_totalreasons_rate

sess_y_exceptional

sess_x_covid

sess_x_covid_rate

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;National, Regional and Local Authority data from 2006/07.&nbsp;School data is included from 2016/17. Primary and secondary only before 2016/17.&nbsp;

Absence rates by geographic level - autumn term

Absence information for autumn term 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 - school level - autumn term

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.National, regional and local authority data from autumn 2019 to autumn 2022

Absence rates by pupil characteristic - autumn term

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

The number of enrolments with one or more session of absence, including by reason for absence. National, Regional and Local Authority data from 2006/07.&nbsp;School data from 2016/17.&nbsp;Primary and secondary only before 2016/17.

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

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 term

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;Primary and secondary only before 2016/17.&nbsp;

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

Overall absence for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools for pupils aged 4.&nbsp;National, Regional and Local Authority data from 2012/13.&nbsp;Primary and secondary only before 2016/17. Collected from 2012/13

Absence rates for four year olds - autumn term

Overall absence for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools for pupils aged 4.&nbsp;School data from 2016/17.

Absence rates for four year olds - school level - autumn term

Absence information for pupil referral units (including alternative provision academies and free schools). Data has been collected from 2013/14.

Absence rates in pupil referral units (PRUs) - autumn term

Absence information for pupil referral units (including alternative provision academies and free schools) at school level. Data has been collected from 2013/14.

Absence rates in pupil referral units (PRUs) - school level - autumn term

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 - school level - full academic years

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

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

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

Absence rates for pupil referral units

Absence rates in pupil referral units (PRUs) - full academic years

Absence rates for pupil referral units. Includes school level data.

Absence rates in pupil referral units (PRUs) - school level - full academic years

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

National persistent absence figures in Autumn terms from 2016/17 to 2022/23. Includes persistent absence and additional non-attendance in circumstances relating to coronavirus (attendance code X).

Persistent absence only (including code x) since Autumn 2016 - autumn term

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

Children's social care

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

COVID-19

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

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

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

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

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

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

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

	Overall absence rate	Percentage of persistent absentees (10% or more missed)
	2022/23 Autumn term
England	7.5%	24.2%
North East	7.9%	25.6%
North West	7.3%	23.4%
Yorkshire and The Humber	7.7%	24.5%
East Midlands	7.4%	23.3%
West Midlands	7.6%	24.5%
East of England	7.6%	24.6%
South East	7.6%	24.5%
South West	7.9%	25.2%
Inner London	7.2%	23.8%
Outer London	7.0%	23.1%

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