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Yakima School District reports steady daily attendance at 89%; OSPI regular attendance shows preliminary rise
Summary
The district reported a year-to-date daily average attendance of 89%, stable from last year, and preliminary OSPI figures indicate a rise in the state's regular-attendance metric. Officials urged community partnerships to address chronic absenteeism tied to poverty and housing instability.
Omar Santoy, the district's executive director of student services, told the Yakima School Board on Jan. 6 that the district's year-to-date daily average attendance is 89%, which he described as the metric the district believes is most closely tied to students' seat time and classroom learning.
"If we see daily average attendance rate go up, we believe that all the other metrics will go up," Santoy said, adding that raising the daily average is "kind of making the water rise" so that other attendance measures improve.
Why it matters: Attendance is closely correlated with achievement. Board members pressed for research on the causes of chronic absenteeism and for targeted, school-level interventions for students facing…
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