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Mr. Porowski outlines Metuchen High School plan to lower chronic absenteeism after spike last year
Summary
Metuchen High School administrators told the board they have a corrective action plan to curb chronic absenteeism after a 16.9% rate last year; presenters said the rate was 9.9% as of March 30 and described incentives, early-warning checks and credit-recovery processes to reduce absences.
Mr. Porowski, a Metuchen High School administrator, presented the schoolcorrective action plan to the Metuchen Board of Education on April 28, explaining why the district must bring chronic absenteeism below the statethreshold and how it proposes to do so.
The plan responds to state monitoring of chronic absenteeism, Porowski said, and uses data-driven steps and community engagement to reduce absences. "Last year we were at 16.9 percent," he said, adding that "as of 03/30/2026 we are at 9.9 percent." He flagged that 10 percent equals 18 or more absences in a school year and that a relatively small group of students with 18to21 absences last year drove much of the overall rate.
Porowski described three main intervention pillars: incentives,…
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