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District reports drop in truancy and average days missed; attendance-recovery efforts credited
Summary
Student services director Miss Pinkney reported district truancy down 3%, average days missed reduced from 14.2 (state figure) to 8.1 locally, and students with 40+ missed days fell from about 130 to roughly 60 as of February 27; the district is continuing attendance recovery and targeted interventions.
Miss Pinkney, director of student services, told the board the district's interim data show progress on attendance measures: truancy is down 3% across the district, the district's average days missed has fallen and the state-reported average of 14.2 days missed has been reduced in the district to 8.1 as of the most recent clean data window.
"The report that we received from the state back in January said that as of 2324, we had 14.2 as a district," Miss Pinkney said. "Right now ... we're at 8.1 and we have about, what, 5 and a half, 6 weeks left of school."
She told the board the district had reduced the number of students with 40 or more missed days from roughly 130 to about 60 and reduced students with 40 unexcused days from about 75–80 to around 22 (figures are through February 27, the district's "cleanest number" for that report). The student-services office credited attendance-recovery programs and closer data entry and tracking for the improvements.
Miss Pinkney said the district has shifted reading interventionists temporarily to campuses with the most third graders and that schools are running attendance-recovery efforts and early interventions to prevent chronic absenteeism. The district plans to present March–May numbers in June.
Board members thanked the student-services team for the progress and asked staff to continue outreach and data monitoring. No board action was taken during the report.
