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Week 12 2025

Pupil attendance in schools

Fortnightly data on pupil attendance, including by reason, phase and geography.

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  • Pupil attendance since week commencing 09 September 2024 - daily

    Local authority, National, Regional

    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.

    Number of rows
    59,112
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Attendance Date
    • Education Phase
    Time period
    2024 Week 37 to 2025 Week 9
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  • Pupil attendance since week commencing 09 September 2024 - weekly

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Weekly 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.

    Number of rows
    11,823
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Education Phase
    Time period
    2024 Week 37 to 2025 Week 9
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  • Pupil attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024 - Autumn term

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Autumn term local authority, regional and national attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.

    Number of rows
    494
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Education Phase
    Time period
    2024/25 Autumn term
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  • Pupil attendance since week commencing 09 September 2024 - year to date

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Year to date 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 include estimates for non-response.

    Number of rows
    494
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Education Phase
    Time period
    2024/25
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  • Pupil attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024 by SEN - Autumn term

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Autumn term local authority, regional and national attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by SEN.

    Number of rows
    1,470
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Education Phase
    • Special Educational Need
    Time period
    2024/25 Autumn term
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  • Pupil attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024 by sex - Autumn term

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Autumn term local authority, regional and national attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by sex.

    Number of rows
    1,329
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Education Phase
    • Sex
    Time period
    2024/25 Autumn term
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  • Pupil attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024 by FSM - Autumn term

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Autumn term local authority, regional and national attendance between 09 September and 21 December 2024, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by FSM eligibility.

    Number of rows
    1,436
    Indicators
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
    Filters
    • Education Phase
    • Free school meal eligibility
    Time period
    2024/25 Autumn term
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  • Reasons for absence and attendance

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    Local authority, National, Regional

    Reasons for pupil attendance and absence

    API data set ID
    63629501-d3ca-c471-9780-ec4cb6fdf172
    Number of rows
    3,285,734
    Indicators
    • Number of sessions
    • Number of sessions (scaled)
    • Percent of sessions
    Filters
    • Attendance reason
    • Attendance status
    • Attendance type
    Time period
    2024 Week 37 to 2025 Week 9
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  • Persistent absence in schools

    Available by API

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Persistent absence measures

    API data set ID
    55629501-e98b-0c75-adba-f95a0cfbb5e9
    Number of rows
    1,482
    Indicators
    • Persistent absence percent
    Filters
    • Education phase
    Time period
    2025 Week 10 to 2025 Week 8
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  • Numbers of schools submitting data

    Available by API

    Local authority, National, Regional

    The number of schools returning data as used in the publication

    API data set ID
    55629501-1945-0174-956c-594f21c90404
    Number of rows
    71,429
    Indicators
    • Number of schools submitting
    • Reference date
    • Total number of schools
    Filters
    • Education phase
    • Time frame
    Time period
    2024 Week 37 to 2025 Week 9
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Access the Pupil attendance and absence in schools in England: data dashboard (opens in new tab) here

The pupil attendance dashboard (opens in new tab) is updated fortnightly. The latest data relates to the week commencing 17 March 2025. The dashboard displays attendance and absence headline figures, and reasons for absence at national, regional and local authority geographic levels. Data is available across state-funded primary, secondary and special schools and can be broken down by individual school type.

Underlying data is available within the “Explore data and files” section of this page, under the data catalogue.

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Data suppression

Where there is only 1 school in a local authority at daily, weekly, termly or year to date level, the attendance figures are suppressed.

All other figures are unsuppressed.

Rounding

In recognition of the uncertainty around inset days, reporting lag and reduced response rate, rates for week commencing 02 September 2024 have been rounded to 0 decimal places. 

All other figures are unrounded.

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Contact us

If you have a specific enquiry about Pupil attendance in schools statistics and data:

School Census Statistics Team

Email: schools.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: School Census Statistics Team

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