What is Chronic Absenteeism?
Throughout this story, we break high school absenteeism into three categories: low, moderate, and chronic.
Low: Students who miss less than 5% or no more than 9 days in a typical school year.
Moderate: Students who who miss between 5% and 10% or 10 to 17 days in a typical school year.
Chronic: Students who miss 10% or more, or at least 18 days in a typical school year.
These numbers do not discriminate between excused and unexcused absences; lost school time is lost school time.
