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Petersburg rolls out PowerSchool analytics dashboard to track attendance and chronic absenteeism
Summary
Petersburg City Public Schools demonstrated a new PowerSchool analytics dashboard at the Oct. 1 board meeting that district leaders say will give school- and district-level staff realtime access to attendance, chronic absenteeism and behavior data; the board heard the district’s chronic-absence target and next reporting steps.
PETERSBURG — Petersburg City Public Schools showed the board a new analytics dashboard tied to PowerSchool on Oct. 1 that district leaders say will let principals, coaches and central office staff monitor attendance, chronic absenteeism and school conduct in near realtime.
District leaders said the dashboard draws directly from PowerSchool, provides tiered access (school staff can drill to student-level records; board members see high-level summaries) and is already in use by some school teams. Superintendent Brown told the board the system will let staff spend less time compiling data and more time analyzing it to support schools.
The dashboard landing page displays enrollment counts and the division’s attendance metrics, including a daily absent total the presenter identified as 416 students for the previous day. The presenter demonstrated a chronic-absence box that showed a current figure of 29.81%…
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