2024-25 Mid-Year Attendance Snapshot for PK-12 Students
Over the past three years, chronic absenteeism has dropped 21% across SchoolStatus Attend districts. Elementary grades are rebounding toward pre-pandemic attendance levels, while middle schools are showing steady, structured improvement. But high school metrics signal a need for new strategies.
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What’s working? Early intervention, proactive family engagement, and structured attendance support in younger grades are making an impact.
What’s next? Districts must sustain elementary progress, build on middle school successes, and rethink attendance strategies for high schoolers.
Data from the 2024-25 school year shows:
- Daily attendance for PK-12 this year is 93.45%, close to pre-pandemic norms
- While attendance rates have improved by 0.31% this year, the growth rate has lost momentum compared to the progress from 2022-23 to 2023-24
- Grades 10–12 show a regression in the first half of the school year
- Younger students (PK–4) are showing the strongest recovery
- Seventh grade emerges as a ‘tipping point,’ where attendance rates begin to drop and chronic absenteeism starts rising