How does your child's school stack up?
Absence rate is the overall percentage of possible mornings or afternoons missed.
Persistent absence is the “percentage of pupils missing 10 per cent or more of the mornings or afternoons they could attend”. The Watford UTC, rated ‘good’ at its last inspection, had a rate of absence of 12.2 per cent and a third of students were persistently absent.Breakspeare School, a special school rated ‘outstanding’ at its last inspection had the second highest.It had an absence rate of 10.8 per cent and persistent absences at 29 per cent.
Nascot Wood Junior School, rated ‘outstanding’, had the lowest rate of absences with just 2.7 per cent and only 2.1 per cent of students were persistently absent.
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