Performance Insights: School Attendance
Every day counts
• research confirms a strong link between attendance and
student outcomes.
• Every day counts aims to inform parents, school
communities and students about the importance of school
attendance
• brochures, case studies, research and factsheets can be
found on the department’s website at
http://education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/
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Average attendance rates
• The overall average attendance rate in Queensland
state schools in 2013 was ***%
• This is just lower than the average in some of the other
eastern Australian states, which is approximately 92%.
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Our school’s attendance rate
• Insert your school’s data here
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Patterns of attendance across the week
Absences by reason by day
(Semester 1, 2010)
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Patterns across the semester
Absences by week by reason
(Semester 1, 2010)
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Patterns across schooling years
Average attendance rates by year level
for all students and Indigenous students
(2008 to 2010)
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Impact of low rates of attendance
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Reasons for non-attendance
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What do we know about attendance
• attendance has a strong and persisting relationship
with student outcomes as measured by NAPLAN
scores
• each day lost in the early years has a stronger
relationship with reading in later years
• each day lost in the later years has a stronger
relationship with numeracy in the later years
• the research literature suggests that several adverse
outcomes are related to student attendance levels
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Categories for school attendance
strategies
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Our school’s approach
• Insert your school’s approach to increasing
attendance here
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