Summary of Class of 2009 Average High School Absenteeism
13,171 first time 9th grade students enrolled in Rhode Island public schools in the 2005-2006 school year.
4,561 or 35% of those students were chronically absent (on average) during their enrollment in Rhode Island public high schools.
For a typical student that represents over 3½ months of missed school days over the course of their high school career.
On the next page we'll examine how many of these chronically absent students graduate on time.
