.inewsource reports that student attendance affects not only the district’s budget, it also puts youth at greater risk of truancy and academic failure when they miss school.
African American students, including those with disabilities, have been within the top three racial and ethnic groups that have chronically missed the most school days on average from the 2018-19 year, when they missed 28.7 days on average, to 2021-22, when they missed 35.7 days, according to state data.
San Diego Unified’s increases in chronic absenteeism reflect statewide trends but are far more severe than what’s happening nationally. During the 2021-22 school year, the rate of chronic absenteeism among students in California was about 30%, nearly three times greater than the rate of about 11% in 2016-17, according to state data. Nationally, the rate of chronic absenteeism was 17% during the 2021-22 school year, up from 16% in 2015-16, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Petterson said that at Torrey Pines Elementary, where his children attend school and where he’s a member of the school site council, school leaders have noticed rising absentee rates among youth who didn’t meet standards for the Smarter Balanced test, a statewide English and math test given annually to students in third-through-eighth and 11th grades.
Many factors can contribute to students missing too many days of school, including mental health challenges, food insecurity, transportation issues or contracting COVID-19 or another serious illness, Bazzo told. “One other thing we're doing as far as the transportation issues, is providing youth opportunity passes and that’s to give free mass transit for our students that could benefit from having a bus pass,” Bazzo said.
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