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Allentown School District to publish public attendance dashboard after year‑one rollout shows 29.8% chronic absenteeism
Summary
District leaders previewed a public attendance and chronic absenteeism dashboard and reported a year‑to‑date chronic absenteeism rate of 29.8%, said an internal draft will be posted after quality checks, and outlined an engagement campaign to help families and partners use the data.
The Allentown School District on Dec. 18 previewed a public attendance dashboard tied to its strategic plan and reported that 29.8% of students are classified as chronically absent so far this academic year.
Catherine Zimmerman, the district’s Strategic Data Fellow, told the board the dashboard is a draft in internal testing and will be embedded on the Allentown website once data validation is complete. Zimmerman said average daily attendance (an example metric) shows roughly 90.76% attendance on a typical…
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