NI 087 - Secondary school persistent absence rate

• Published by: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Last updated: 07 January 2014
• Topic: Society
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

The number of persistent absentees as a percentage of the total number of local authority maintained secondary school pupil enrolments. A persistent absentee is a pupil who has accumulated the threshold number of half-day sessions of absence over the relevant statistical reporting period - * an annual basis ? 64 or more half-day sessions of absence from school over the statistical reporting period for absence (this is currently the two and a half terms ending at the May half term); and * a two-term basis ? 52 or more half-day sessions of absence from school over the combined autumn and spring terms.

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