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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Data dashboards provide an alternative route to explore a statistical release's data, presenting key statistics and further insights, often via graphical visualisations.
The pupil attendance dashboard (opens in new tab) is updated fortnightly. The latest data relates to the week commencing 21 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.