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Oshkosh district reports attendance near state average, flags disciplinary-removal disproportionality
Summary
District staff reported on June 25 that overall attendance for the year was roughly on par with the state average and that disciplinary removals totaled 2,321 days, with notable disproportionality affecting Black students and students identifying as two or more races.
District staff reported on June 25 that overall attendance in the 2024–25 school year ran roughly in line with the state average and that disciplinary removals remain an equity concern.
"Student attendance ... this year, we finished with [an attendance rate] that places us in the 3-star category. We missed 4 stars by half a percentage point," said the staff member presenting the attendance report, adding the district's rate is at or slightly above the state average and that disciplinary removal days totaled 2,321 for the year.
Presenters emphasized persistent disproportionality in disciplinary removals: the rate of days removed for students who are Black or who identify as two or more races has remained steady while removals decreased for white students. Board members asked for more disaggregated data on the number of students involved (rather than total days removed) and for analyses that separate repeated incidents from single incidents.
Staff said the district will move to a new student-information/early-warning platform, NextPath (replacing EduCLIMBER), which they expect will allow quicker, more detailed disaggregation of attendance and removal data. Other operational actions under way include automating attendance letters for repeated unexcused absences, adding a medical-excuse attendance code in Infinite Campus, and changing the elementary threshold that distinguishes a tardy from an absence from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
Why it matters: attendance and disproportionate disciplinary removals affect student learning and equity; board members pressed for consistent coding across buildings and for training to reduce subjectivity that can introduce bias in discipline decisions.
Next steps: staff will provide more detailed suspension/removal data (including counts of individual students and demographics) in future reports and said they will include deeper disciplinary-disaggregation in the July SEL report and ongoing equity work.
