It is important to note that a pupil who has an attendance figure of 90% in one year on average loses 100 lessons or 4 weeks of school. A pupil with an attendance figure of 90% over their school life loses a whole year of school!
The Local Authority has systems in place to take action against parents and carers who fail in their legal duty to send thier child to school. At St James we are comitted to support parents to enable our children to gain the highest possible levels of attendance.
Please click here for the LA attendance guidance.
Our school attendance figures are below:
|
2015-2016 |
2016-2017 | 2017-2018 |
Whole School |
94.8% |
94.9% |
95% |
Authorised Absence |
3.3% |
3.6% |
3.8% |
Unauthorised Absence |
1.9% |
1.5% |
1.2% |
Persistent Absentees | 15.8% | 10.8% | 9.7% |