Bailey in context
Related Indicators for page Children and Youth Cabinet (ES): Page 5:
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% Chronically Absent (120day min)
% Students Chronically Absent (10% or More of a Minimum 120 Days Enrolled)
Attendance rates often mask high rates of absenteeism for groups of students.
Above are all of the public elementary schools in the state of RI. Statewide values have been highlighted in green. Robert Bailey, IV elementary school is represented by the blue bar. On the left are attendance rates. On the right are chronic absenteeism rates. Going forward, this story will focus on different levels of absenteeism.
Our definition of chronic absenteeism is students who are absent between 10% and 20% of the days they are enrolled in school. Note that low (0-5%), moderate (5-10%) and excessive absenteeism (20%+) are separate categories for the purposes of this story.
Values of -1 indicate that data were suppressed due to small cell sizes.
