Ofqual have publicly committed to “getting back to normal” in this year’s grading standards. But they have also acknowledged the need for “some protection against any impact of COVID 19 disruption”. So let’s see how Year 11 have been impacted by absence this year.
We’ll be using data from around 2,700 Attendance Tracker secondary schools in England covering the period up until the end of last week, Friday 19th May.
We’ll start by looking at the percentage of morning and afternoon registration sessions missed. In the chart below we compare this year to the same period last year, and with pre-pandemic.
For most schools, this year’s data excludes absences due to strikes.
