school_type

sess_authorised_percent

sess_overall

sess_x_covid

sess_overall_percent

sess_x_covid_rate

sess_unauthorised_percent

Academic year 2022/23

Absence by local authority - rates of overall absence, persistent absence and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances 2020/21

Absence by local authority - rates of overall absence, persistent absence and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances

Absence by region - rates of overall absence, persistent absence and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances 2020/21

Absence by region - rates of overall absence, persistent absence and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances

Includes overall and persistent absence rates and rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, in Pupil referral units, 2015/16 to 2020/21

Absence rates and rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, in Pupil referral units, 2015/16 to 2020/21

Includes rate of absence by reason by term, plus sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, all schools,  2018/19 to 2020/21

Absence reason by term, plus sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, all schools,  2018/19 to 2020/21

Full academic year absence rates 2015/16 to 2020/21, plus rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, all schools

National absence rates, all schools - 2015/16 to 2020/21

Includes the overall absence rate and rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, by school type, 2018/19 Autumn Term to 2020/21 Summer Term

Overall absence rate and rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, by school type, 2018/19 Autumn Term to 2020/21 Summer Term

Includes the persistent absence rate at 10% and 50% of sessions missed, by school type, 2015/16 to 2020/21

Persistent absence (10% and 50% of sessions missed), by school type, 2015/16 to 2020/21

Includes the rate of absence by reason, including all authorised and unauthorised reasons, and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, all schools, 2015/16 to 2020/21

Rate of absence by reason and sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances, all schools, 2015/16 to 2020/21

Includes the number and rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances in 2020/21 Academic year, by term, plus the overall absence rate

Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances in 2020/21 Academic year, by term

sess_authorised

enrolments_pa_10_exact

enrolments

num_schools

sess_possible

sess_unauthorised

enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent

sess_authorised_percent_pa_10_exact

sess_authorised_pa_10_exact

sess_overall_pa_10_exact

enrolments_pa_50_exact

sess_possible_pa_10_exact

sess_unauthorised_pa_10_exact

sess_overall_percent_pa_10_exact

enrolments_pa_50_exact_percent

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_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

Absence information for full academic year 2020/21 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.

01 - Absence rates by geographic level

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.

01 (termly) - Absence rates by geographic level - Termly data

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

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

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

03 - Absence rates as a percentage of possible sessions by band

Absence rates for pupil referral units

04 - Absence rates in pupil referral units (PRUs)

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

05 - Absence rates for four year olds

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

06 - Absence rates by pupil characteristic

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

06 (termly) - Absence rates by pupil characteristic - Termly data

Absence information by local authority district. Includes FSM eligible and FSM6 eligible breakdowns.

07 - Absence rates by characteristic and local authority district

Absence information by the pupil’s residence including the level of deprivation and rurality.

08 - Absence rates by pupil residency - IDACI and urban/rurality

Absence information by the school National; Regional; Local authority; Local 2016/17 to 2018/19 7 location including the level of depravation and rurality

09 - Absence rates by school location - IDACI and urban/rurality

Overall absence for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools for pupils with post looked after arrangements

10 - Absence rates for pupils with post looked after arrangements (PLAA)

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

UK education and training statistics

	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2020/21
Overall absence rate	4.6%	4.7%	4.8%	4.7%	4.6%
Authorised absence rate	3.4%	3.4%	3.5%	3.3%	3.4%
Unauthorised absence rate	1.1%	1.3%	1.4%	1.4%	1.3%
Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	21.3%
Number of overall absence sessions	109,518,001	113,475,287	118,236,069	119,207,289	117,183,525
Number of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances	z	z	z	z	541,154,384

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