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Rocklin Unified credits attendance push as ADA rises above 95% and chronic absenteeism falls under 10%
Summary
District staff told the board that average daily attendance improved to roughly 95.44% and chronic absenteeism dropped to 9.7% in 2023–24; the presentation linked attendance gains to academic outcomes and set goals to reach about 96% and further reduce chronic absenteeism.
Hannah Anderson, Rocklin Unified’s director of innovation in school programs, told the board the district’s attendance-improvement project lifted average daily attendance to about 95.44% last year and cut chronic absenteeism to 9.7%.
“Students who regularly attend school are learning in our schools,” Anderson said, citing district analyses that showed students who attended consistently were far more likely to meet CAASPP standards in math and English language arts. Anderson said kindergarteners who attended regularly outperformed peers on early literacy measures by large margins.
The presentation framed attendance as both an academic…
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