We are delighted to introduce another new feature to FFT Aspire’s ground-breaking Attendance Tracker. In addition to whole school and year group figures, pupil groups have now been added to the persistent absence analysis, allowing you to compare persistent absence rates for key groups in your school such as gender, SEND and FSM6.
This development has been heavily requested by schools and we hope that you find it useful.
In this post we’ll explore patterns in persistent absence. To do this, we’ll make use of published DfE data covering all state-funded schools in England alongside data from our Attendance Tracker schools – around 2,600 state-funded secondary and 7,300 state-funded primary schools.
We’ll use published data for figures up to the end of the 2018/19 academic year, and Attendance Tracker data for 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23.
