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Using Attendance Data to Improve
Student Achievement
STATS-DC 2010
Attendance: Education’s Most Important KPI
Sue Fothergill, Coordinator
Baltimore City Student
Attendance Initiative
Tanya Williams PsyD, Coordinator
Office of Attendance and Truancy
Baltimore City Public Schools
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Attendance Data: A Tool for School
Improvement
Poor Attendance is:
• an early warning sign
• predictive of academic failure
• a drag on pace of instruction
• costly for schools and cities
Attendance Measures are:
• Available
• Accessible
• Understandable
• Powerful
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Why are Measures of
Attendance so Powerful?
Attendance Measures Are:
• Up-to-date, recorded daily in most districts
• Easily Understood by all stakeholders
• Universally Accepted as Important – better
attendance leads to higher achievement
• Best Available Indicator of student engagement
• Strong Predictor of school failure
• Counterbalance to “push-out” tendencies of testbased accountability rubrics
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The Impact of Attendance on Student Success
Chronically absent kindergarteners in a six city study had
the lowest performance on 5th grade assessments.
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Average Academic Performance
50
48
46
Reading
Math
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42
40
0-3.3% in K
3.3 - 6.6% in K
6.6-10.0% in K
Absence Rate in Kindergarten
Source: Chang and Romero, 2008
>=10.0% in K
60.0%
The problem: Chronic Absence in Baltimore is High
and Rises to Epidemic Levels by High School
48.9%
50.0%
41.5%
Student Absences
40.0%
37.7%
38.3%
24.3%
19.9%
19.5%
16.8%
17.2%
17.8%
18.8%
9th
10th
11th
12th
32.1%
30.0%
22.1%
18.2%
20.0%
15.0%
9.1%
10.0%
0.0%
4.8%
6.9%
10.0%
2.1%
7.0%
10.2%
11.3%
12.1%
5th
6th
7th
8th
Chronically Absent*,^
10-19% of Days
Absent
Severely Chronically Absent *, **
20% and Above of
Days Absent
Source: Baltimore Education Research Consortium
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60.0%
Poor Attendance in 6th Grade
Predicts Dropout
56.3%
50.0%
41.6%
40.0%
30.0%
25.7%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
Severely Chronically Chronically Absent 20 Not Chronically Absent
Absent > 40 days
to 39 days absent
< 20 days absent
absent
withdrew from school - likely dropped out
High School Outcomes by Rates of Chronic Absenteeism in Sixth Grade
(Baltimore City Public Schools, 1990-00 Sixth Grade Cohort)
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Baltimore’s
Attendance Strategy
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All school absences reduce learning, but
they happen for different reasons,
– Suspensions and Expulsions – school-imposed
– Excused absence – illness, doctor’s visit, court, etc.
– Unexcused absence – skipping school, sibling or elder
care, no note, etc. And need different
solutions…
•Adopt a progressive discipline code
•Make attendance widely available and a “must
respond to” indicator for school and student
support staff
•Stress positive, problem-solving approaches:
increase student voice, incentives, communication
to parents and community
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Baltimore’s Attendance Strategy
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Use Data to Understand the Problem
Bring in School, City and Community Partners
Study Best Practices
Implement School and System Reforms
Change Use of Attendance Data
Baltimore City’s Use of Attendance Data
is Advancing
• Using additional data points besides ADA
Calculated by dividing the aggregate number of students in attendance by the aggregate
number of students in membership for the same time frame.
What proportion of students enrolled attend school each day
Attendance
– High attenders - 5 or fewer days absent
– Regular attendance - 9 or fewer days absent (about 5%)
Absences
– Chronic absence – 20 to 39 days (about 10-19%)-excused and unexcused
– Habitual truancy – enrolled in a school for 91 ore more days, unlawfully absent for 20%
– Suspensions and expulsions – school imposed absences
Withdrawals/Dropouts
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Chronic Absence Rates, 10 Baltimore Schools with
Attendance Rates > or = to 95%
18.00%
16.59%
16.00%
14.00%
13.19%
14.02%
14.81%
12.00%
10.00%
8.85% 8.96%
8.00%
5.99%
6.00%
3.41% 3.48%
4.00%
2.00%
0.68%
0.00%
Paying Attention Only to Average Daily Attendance Can
Allow Chronic Absence to go Unnoticed.
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Baltimore City Public Schools Attendance Data
KASA Middle/High (#342)
preliminary data as of 7/2/2010
Enrollment= 290
SY 0910 vs. SY 0809
School Year 2009 - 2010 Average Daily Attendance
All
93.17%
Reg.
93.65%
Sped.
90.45%
School Year 2009 - 2010 Chronic Absence Rate
All
23.80%
Reg.
22.14%
Sped.
32.69%
School Year 2009 - 2010 # of High Attenders
All
221
Reg.
190
Sped.
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Change
All
- .74%
Reg.
- .35%
Sped
- 2.06%
School Year 2009 - 2010 # enrolled Truant
students
All
27
Reg.
21
Sped.
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School Year 2009 - 2010 % of High
Attenders
All
66.57%
Reg.
67.86%
Sped.
59.62%
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Baltimore City’s Use of Attendance Data is
Increasing Focus for SY 1011
• Taking Attendance more often: daily in K-8 schools and in each
class in Secondary schools
• Triaging Schools: high absence schools flagged for intervention
• Triaging Students: high-absence students are flagged for referral to
Student Support and IEP Teams and community services
• Increasing Accountability: district-level “Attendance-Stat”
and “Special-Education Stat” to track data collection, attendance
rates and areas of need
• Improving Dissemination: web-portal gives real-time & historical
data for students and whole school to principals
• Determining how and where incentives should be used
Baltimore’s
Attendance Results
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Over 14,000 Fewer Suspensions in
Baltimore City Public Schools
30,000
26,310
25,000
20,000
15,000
11,961
10,000
5,000
0
SY2003 - 2004
Note: School District Population
School Year 2008–09, 82,266
SY2008 - 2009
Total Number of Suspensions
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Percent of Students who are Chronically Absent
Baltimore City Chronic Absence Rates
Are Declining
50.0
45.0
40.0
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0
15.0
10.0
5.0
0.0
CA 2006-7
CA 2007-8
CA 2008-9
Elementary
14.0
12.4
11.3
Middle
33.7
27.0
18.6
High
43.5
42.1
42.0
All City Schools
28.7
25.6
23.2
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Habitual Truancy is Decreasing
9000
8000
7000
6000
5000
Number Habitually
Truant Students
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
SY 2006-7
SY 2007-8
SY 2008-9
Baltimore Habitual Truant Rates decreased from 8,068 in
0607 to 6,377 in 0809
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Baltimore City High Attenders Rate is Increasing
for Elementary and Middle School Students
Percent High Attenders
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
% HA 2006-7
% HA 2007-8
% HA 2008-9
Elementary
35.8
36.1
36.7
Middle
21.2
26.8
33.1
High
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18.1
17.1
All City Schools
25.6
28
26.7
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Baltimore City Student Attendance Initiatives’ Documents:
www.igoogle.com
Username: attendancewg.user
Password: stayinschool
Contact: Sue Fothergill
Phone: 410-404-4570
E-Mail: [email protected]
Photography by
Audrey Gatewood
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