Department for Education

Week 37 2026 (Start of 26/27 AY)

Pupil attendance in schools

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

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• Published: 24 September 2026

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• Pupil attendance since week commencing 07 September 2026 - daily

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Daily local authority, regional and national attendance since 07 September 2026, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.

  • Number of rows: 3,233
  • Indicators:
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
  • Filters:
    • Attendance Date
    • Education Phase
  • Time period: 2026 Week 37

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• Pupil attendance since week commencing 07 September 2026 - weekly

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Weekly local authority, regional and national attendance since 07 September 2026, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.

  • Number of rows: 647
  • Indicators:
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
  • Filters:
    • Education Phase
  • Time period: 2026 Week 37

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• Pupil attendance since week commencing 07 September 2026 - year to date

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Year to date local authority, regional and national attendance since 07 September 2026, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.

  • Number of rows: 647
  • Indicators:
    • Afternoon sessions
    • Attendance rate
    • Authorised absence rate
  • Filters:
    • Education Phase
  • Time period: 2026/27

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• Number of schools submitting data

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  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.

  • API data set ID: 55629501-1945-0174-956c-594f21c90404
  • Number of rows: 4,527
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools submitting
    • Reference date
    • Total number of schools
  • Filters:
    • Education phase
    • Time frame
  • Time period: 2026 Week 37

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• Reasons for absence and attendance

  Available by API

  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.

  • API data set ID: 63629501-d3ca-c471-9780-ec4cb6fdf172
  • Number of rows: 208,242
  • Indicators:
    • Number of sessions
    • Percent of sessions
    • Reference date
  • Filters:
    • Attendance reason
    • Education phase
    • Time frame
  • Time period: 2026 Week 37

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• Pupil attendance during week commencing 31 August only - daily

  National

  Includes national level attendance and absence rates for week commencing 31 August 2026 for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in England.

  • Number of rows: 20
  • Indicators:
    • Absence rate
    • Attendance rate
    • Response rate
  • Filters:
    • Date
    • Education Phase
  • Time period: 2026 Week 36

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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 07 September 2026. 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

All figures are unrounded.

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