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York County reports improved attendance measures, outlines interventions for chronically absent students
Summary
Division staff reported month-by-month attendance dashboards showing semester improvements and described layered interventions — student connection coaches, school social workers, flexible in-person recovery sessions — aimed at reducing chronic absenteeism and truancy.
York County School Division staff presented a strategic-plan update on student attendance and chronic absenteeism and described tiered, data-driven school interventions that the division says are correlated with recent declines in truancy.
Dr. Eric Butler, director of student services, briefed the board on metrics and methodology for attendance reporting and described two statutory buckets: truancy (legal compliance tied to Virginia Code) and chronic absenteeism (an academic-impact measure). He noted Virginia’s chronic-absence benchmark has changed in recent years (from 15% to 11% for most students; a 12% threshold is used for students with disabilities). Butler said division reporting counts excused and unexcused absences for chronic-absence calculations: ‘‘even if they’re excused, if they miss more than the threshold, they are considered…
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