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Attendance & Chronic Absence

These dashboards are grouped into 3 areas: Cumulative Year-To-Date Attendance: Computations on attendance from the beginning of the year up to the most recent date available, Non-Cumulative Daily and Weekly Attendance: Summations of attendance for students and elementary classrooms for each school day and school week separately, Attendance Accounting and Compliance: Summations on compliance with state requirements around reporting daily attendance in the classroom.

Cumulative Year-to-date attendance


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Absence Analysis

Description: ​Summations of all-day absences by reason and as a percent of all possible student instructional days.

Inquiry Examples: Which schools have the highest and lowest percentage of lost instructional days? Which school has the high rates of absence for illness?  For unverified and unexcused ? Which days and times of the year are absences at their highest?  For what reasons?

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Chronic Absence

Description: ​The Chronic Absence dashboard shows 4 years of data for students who have satisfactory attendance, or are at risk, moderately or severely chronically absent.

Inquiry Examples:
 ​What percentage of selected ethnic groups are chronic absent?  At risk? Which schools have the highest and lowest rates of chronic absence? Where in Oakland do a school’s chronic absent students live?


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Cumulative Year-To- Date Weekly Attendance Tracker

Description: ​Weekly attendance rates at the student and classroom level are displayed. This dashboard is ideal for case managers and site-based attendance teams who provide attendance related interventions.

Inquiry Examples: ​How have attendance rates changed week by week for a student or classroom? Which students at my school have the best or the worst attendance rates as of a certain week?

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Period attendance

Description: ​Percent of scheduled periods absent and percent of attended periods partially missed due to tardies by Year, School, Date, Month, Reason, Period, Teacher, and Course.

Inquiry Examples: ​Which teacher and/or course are the best attended and worst attended? What courses are “cut” the most (unverified/ unexcused absences)? Which periods struggle the most with attendance?

Non-Cumulative daily and weekly attendance


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Daily Attendance Calendar

Description: ​Calendar view of the selected student's school attendance in a print-friendly view for conversations with families.

Inquiry Examples: ​What attendance report can I bring to SART meetings with students and families? What day of the week does a certain student tend to miss?

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Daily and Weekly Classroom Attendance

Description: ​Summations of all-day attendance by school day and calendar week for TK-5 classrooms.

Inquiry Examples: ​Which classroom had the best attendance for the latest week at your school? What classroom had the most 100% attended days during a custom time period? Which students were absent in a particular week from the classroom?


Attendance Accounting and Compliance


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Attendance Report Submissions

Description: Submissions of daily attendance reports in AERIES by school and teacher and period and department.

Inquiry Examples: Which teachers have submitted 100% of their expected attendance reports in AERIES? Which schools are doing the best and which schools are doing the worst in regards to submitting attendance reports in AERIES?