Chronic Absenteeism in Kindergarten Lowers Future Achievement Scores.
Chronic Absenteeism in kindergarten has profound negative associations with reading and math in subsequent years. The association persists and even grows with each successive grade.
Third-grade reading is a critical milestone, when students shift from learning to read, to reading to learn. Without intervention, struggling readers start to fall increasingly behind in all subjects. Not surprisingly, absenteeism's disadvantage largely persists through the grades. (See research referenced on Page 1.)
Note that math is affected even more dramatically. Click "Select an attribute" and choose math proficiency-plus to see the math results.
Click here to see these data broken out by LEA -- both districts and charter schools.
