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Division reports rising chronic absenteeism; board weighs interventions and data cleanup
Summary
Division staff reported elevated chronic absenteeism—Charlottesville High School was cited at 32.68%—and described tiered interventions, automated family notifications and targeted social‑worker caseloads. Board members requested more neighborhood‑level data, counts of student success plans and clarity on outreach.
Charlottesville City Schools staff told the board the division is seeing a post‑COVID increase in chronic absenteeism and described a multi-pronged effort to identify and address the causes.
Ms. Rasnick (attendance lead) told the board that chronic absenteeism is measured across the school year and that early‑year thresholds (10%) are used to identify students at risk. She said the division provides automated daily and chronic‑absence notifications, uses a decision‑tree to prioritize interventions and deploys school…
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