CYC: A Middle School Attendance Story

Essential Question:
What are the primary factors that affect student attendance in Middle School?

Part two of the working data story for and with the Providence Mayor's Children and Youth Cabinet. The primary goal of this part of the story is to understand factors affecting attendance in middle school. Our focus school is Roger Williams Middle School.

Individual Indicator: Prior Academic Performance

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Of students who were chronically absent in 2010-11, only 12% were proficient in Math in the previous year compared to 17% of students with low or moderate absenteeism.

This bar graph shows the percent of 8th graders at Roger Williams in the 2010-11 school year who achieved Proficient or Proficient with Distinction on NECAP Math exam in the previous school year (2009-10). 17% of students with low or moderate absenteeism (less than 10%) in 2010-11 earned proficient Math NECAP scores in 2009-10. Only 12% of students at Roger Williams who were chronically absent in 2010-11 had proficient NECAP Math scores in 2009-10.


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