Attendance is essential for students to achieve the most out of their experience, including attainment, wellbeing and wider life chances (DfE, 2022)

• There is a strong link between attainment and attendance:

36% of persistently absent children in KS4 gained 9 to 4 in their English and Maths GCSEs' compared to 84% of regular attenders.

It’s never too late!

More than half (54%) of pupils who were persistently absent in Year 10 and then rarely absent in Year 11, passed at least 5 GCSEs' compared to 36% of pupils who were persistently absent in both years.