Week 20 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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• Published: 29 May 2025

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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: 1,439
  • 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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• 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: 1,335
  • 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 06 January and 12 April 2025 by FSM - Spring term

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Spring term local authority, regional and national attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by FSM eligibility.

  • Number of rows: 1,434
  • Indicators:
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
  • Filters:
    • Education Phase
    • Free school meal eligibility
  • Time period: 2024/25 Spring term

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• Pupil attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025 by SEN - Spring term

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Spring term local authority, regional and national attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by SEN.

  • Number of rows: 1,457
  • Indicators:
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
  • Filters:
    • Education Phase
    • Special Educational Need
  • Time period: 2024/25 Spring term

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• Pupil attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025 by sex - Spring term

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Spring term local authority, regional and national attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by sex.

  • Number of rows: 1,303
  • Indicators:
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
  • Filters:
    • Education Phase
    • Sex
  • Time period: 2024/25 Spring term

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• Pupil attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025 - Spring term

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Spring term local authority, regional and national attendance between 06 January and 12 April 2025, 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 Spring term

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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 - 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: 73,096
  • 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: 14,802
  • 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 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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• Persistent absence in schools

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Persistent absence measures, year to date only, updated each publication week. Figures are provided at the local authority, regional and national level for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.

  • Number of rows: 3,458
  • Indicators:
    • Persistent absence percent
  • Filters:
    • Education phase
  • Time period: 2025 Week 10 to 2025 Week 8

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• Number of schools submitting data

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Daily, weekly and year to date numbers of schools returning data as used in the publication. Figures are provided at the local authority, regional and national level for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.

  • Number of rows: 88,392
  • 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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• Reasons for absence and attendance

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Daily and weekly local authority, regional and national reasons for pupil attendance and absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Totals for all schools include estimates for non-response.

  • Number of rows: 4,066,032
  • 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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Access the Pupil attendance and absence in schools in England: data dashboard (opens in a new tab) (opens in new tab) here

The pupil attendance dashboard (opens in a new tab) (opens in new tab) is updated fortnightly. The latest data relates to the week commencing 12 May 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 guidance

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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