Performance Insights: School Attendance

Every day counts

• research confirms a strong link between attendance and student outcomes.

• Every day counts aims to inform parents, school communities and students about the importance of school attendance

• brochures, case studies, research and factsheets can be found on the department’s website at http://education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/

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•The overall average attendance rate in Queensland state schools in 2013 was ***%

•This is just lower than the average in some of the other eastern Australian states, which is approximately 92%.

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Average attendance rates

•Insert your school’s data here

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Our school’s attendance rate

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Patterns of attendance across the week

Absences by reason by day(Semester 1, 2010)

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Patterns across the semester

Absences by week by reason(Semester 1, 2010)

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Patterns across schooling years

Average attendance rates by year levelfor all students and Indigenous students

(2008 to 2010)

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Impact of low rates of attendance

Reasons for non-attendance

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•attendance has a strong and persisting relationship with student outcomes as measured by NAPLAN scores

•each day lost in the early years has a stronger relationship with reading in later years

•each day lost in the later years has a stronger relationship with numeracy in the later years

•the research literature suggests that several adverse outcomes are related to student attendance levels

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What do we know about attendance

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Categories for school attendance strategies

•Insert your school’s approach to increasing attendance here

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Our school’s approach