Accredited official statistics

Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2018

This is the first of three planned absence publications relating to the 2018 to 2019 academic year, and relates to the autumn term only.

Applies to England

Documents

Main text

National tables

National tables

Underlying data

Details

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

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

It includes information on:

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

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

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 30 May 2019

Sign up for emails or print this page