Monitor your school attendance: user guide
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities using the monitor your school attendance tool.
Applies to England
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The monitor your school attendance data tool is available on the view your education data service. It provides useful information on your school’s attendance and absence.
You can use the tool to:
- view secure attendance reports for the whole school, individual pupils or pupil characteristic groups
- compare your school attendance within the local authority and see your school’s position for attendance and performance nationally
- download attendance data
If you do not have access, you’ll need to:
- be already sharing your daily attendance data with the Department for Education
- request access to the tool
Updates to this page
Published 27 March 2024Last updated 19 December 2024 + show all updates
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Updated the user guide to clarify the pupil data in the attendance downloads and added a link to 'How to use the absence bandings report'. Updated the technical issues document with the latest active user issue - inaccurate attendance results - and how to fix it.
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Added 'Monitor your school attendance: how to use the absence bandings report'.
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On 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' we have added information on the check your leaver data report, how data is calculated in the tool and the differences between daily data and the fortnightly published stats. On 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' we have updated active and closed issues to help users resolve problems.
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Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' and 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' to close completed issues.
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Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' with information on 'The 10 days of continuous unauthorised absence report' and 'Year-to-date comparison reports'.
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Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' to include new codes.
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Updated feature information and added new filters available within the tool. Data definitions have been updated with changes to attendance codes effective from 19 August 2024.
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First published.