Accredited official statistics

Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2017

Indicative figures on overall, authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence by school type.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 17 May 2018

Applies to England

Documents

Main text

PDF, 683 KB, 9 pages

National Tables

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 270 KB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alternative.formats@education.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Underlying data

ZIP, 21.4 MB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alternative.formats@education.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Pre-release access list

HTML

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
• pupil referral units (these provide education for children who can’t go to a mainstream school)

It includes information on:

• reasons for absence
• persistent absence

The release uses pupil-level absence data that we collect in the school census.

School census statistics team

Email schools.statistics@education.gov.uk

Telephone: Mark Pearson 0370 000 2288

Published 17 May 2018