Attendance
Good attendance helps support pupils' learning, well-being and wider development.
You can only allow your child to miss school if they're too ill to go in or you have advance permission from the school, for example due to a child's medical needs.
Attendance policy and guidance
Schools can support children to attend regularly. If you have concerns about your child's attendance, speak to your school.
All schools must publish an attendance policy. This should outline expectations, procedures, and responsibilities for ensuring pupils attend school regularly and on time.
You can find out more about parents' and carers' responsibilities on school attendance on the Children's Commissioner website.
- Parents' and carers' responsibilities
- Visit the Children's Commissioner website (opens in a new tab)
Attendance and absence for the previous academic year
Information in this section is for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. It only includes children who were aged 5 or over at the start of the academic year (31 August).
School attendance and absence comparisons are made with local and national averages for state-funded schools of the same phase, phases and type.
Attendance
Schools must record pupil attendance twice a day: once in the morning and once in the afternoon. A session is a morning or afternoon period in a school.
How the attendance rate is calculated
Attendance rate is worked out by adding together the sessions that all pupils have attended. This number is then divided by the number of possible sessions that all pupils could have attended. The result is multiplied by 100 to get a percentage.
| Attendance | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| School | 93.7% | The number of sessions that all pupils attended compared to all possible sessions means that this school has a 93.7% attendance rate. |
| Worcestershire average for schools of this type | 91.5% | The number of sessions that all pupils attended compared to all possible sessions means that schools of this type in Worcestershire have a 91.5% attendance rate. |
| England average for schools of this type | 91.6% | The number of sessions that all pupils attended compared to all possible sessions means that schools of this type in England have a 91.6% attendance rate. |
Persistent absence
If a pupil misses 10% or more of their possible sessions in a year, they are identified as being persistently absent.
On average there are 380 sessions a year in school, so a pupil who misses 38 or more sessions is considered persistently absent.
| Persistent absence | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| School | 16% | Out of 432 pupils, 69 were persistently absent. This means that 16% were persistently absent. |
| Worcestershire average for schools of this type | 23% | Out of the total number of pupils in Worcestershire in schools of this type, 23% were persistently absent. |
| England average for schools of this type | 23.4% | Out of the total number of pupils in England in schools of this type, 23.4% were persistently absent. |