Week 12 2025

Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance and absence data including termly national statistics and fortnightly statistics in development derived from DfE’s regular attendance data

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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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Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

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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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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Telephone: 020 7783 8300

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Phone: 0370 000 2288

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Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm (closed on bank holidays)

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