In this article, we look at the relationship between rates of absence and distance from home to school.
This is the first time we’ve looked at this relationship. Intuition would suggest that those who live further away are absent more often. But very often intuition can be wrong.
On this occasion, however, it probably isn’t.
As with all our analysis of absence data, we use data for the whole 2022/23 academic year from schools that subscribe to FFT Attendance Tracker.
Around 2,700 secondary schools and 7,200 primary schools make use of this service. However, for this analysis we first limit the sample to schools where we have data on pupils’ home postcodes for at least 90% of pupils.
