MCYC: An Elementary School Attendance Story

Essential Question:
What are the key factors contributing to attendance in elementary school?

A data story for and with the Providence Mayor's Children and Youth Cabinet. The primary goal of the story is to understand factors affecting attendance in elementary school. Our focus school is Bailey Elementary.

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In this chart, the bars on the left show the breakdown among students at Bailey who pay full-price for lunch. The bars on the right show the absenteeism level breakdown among Bailey students eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

Surprisingly, we see that full-price students at Bailey have slightly higher rates of moderate and excessive absenteeism than their higher poverty peers. However, one should be cautious when interpreting these figures, as over 90% of students at Bailey fall in the free/reduced price lunch category.


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