Accredited official statistics

Pupil absence in schools in England: 2014 to 2015

This release reports on pupil absence in primary and secondary schools in the 2014 to 2015 academic year.

Applies to England

Documents

Main text: SFR10/2016

National tables: SFR10/2016

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National tables: SFR10/2016

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Local authority tables: SFR10/2016

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Local authority tables: SFR10/2016

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Additional tables - Pupil residency and school location: SFR10/2016

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Additional tables - Pupil residency and school location: SFR10/2016

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Additional tables - Proposed persistent absence methodology, 15% threshold: SFR10/2016

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Additional tables - Proposed persistent absence methodology, 15% threshold: SFR10/2016

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Additional tables - Proposed persistent absence methodology, 10% threshold: SFR10/2016

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Underlying data: SFR10/2016

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Pre-release access list: SFR10/2016

Details

This release provides information on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in:

  • state-funded primary schools
  • state-funded secondary schools
  • special schools

It includes information on:

  • reasons for absence
  • persistent absence
  • pupil characteristics
  • absence information for pupil referral units

The information is based on pupil level absence data collected via the school census.

It updates and supplements information published in the October 2015 release ‘Pupil absence in schools in England, autumn 2014 and spring 2015’.

A guide on how we produce pupil absence statistics is also available.

School census statistics team

Email schools.statistics@education.gov.uk

Telephone: Mark Pearson 0370 000 2288

Updates to this page

Published 24 March 2016

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