DC Graduation Problems Extend to Wilson High School, Councilmember Says

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Anonymous wrote:80% is true only for In-Seat Attendance. That's what the school is evaluated with. But this is not the same as a student's individual attendance data, which is counted by class period. Missing one period does NOT mean a student is marked absent for their other classes, and it doesn't mean that their grade is docked for classes they haven't missed. DCPS could do a better job messaging this to parents and the community.

I am not sure what data the various journalists and investigators have been using -- (in-seat attendance vs. period-by-period -- but that would be good to know.

From the OSSE report, appendix A:

"Definitions

In this report an absence is defined as “a full or partial school day on which the student is not physically in attendance at scheduled periods of actual instruction at the educational institution in which s/he was enrolled or attended, and is not in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved school program.

Presence is defined “a single school day on which the student is physically in attendance at scheduled periods of actual instruction at the educational institution in which she or he was enrolled and registered for at least eighty percent (80%) of the full instructional day, or in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved school program for that student."

The next issues, what counts as an Excused vs. Unexcused absence, right now their is very little beyond a note for single daily absences!

This is clearly defined on the DCPS website and parent handbook.

So a parent note to say child was sick is sufficient, do you see were this is going? Remember the fake notes written when that poor child went missing, written by the caretaker not a doctor!!

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Anonymous wrote:80% is true only for In-Seat Attendance. That's what the school is evaluated with. But this is not the same as a student's individual attendance data, which is counted by class period. Missing one period does NOT mean a student is marked absent for their other classes, and it doesn't mean that their grade is docked for classes they haven't missed. DCPS could do a better job messaging this to parents and the community.

I am not sure what data the various journalists and investigators have been using -- (in-seat attendance vs. period-by-period -- but that would be good to know.

From the OSSE report, appendix A:

"Definitions

In this report an absence is defined as “a full or partial school day on which the student is not physically in attendance at scheduled periods of actual instruction at the educational institution in which s/he was enrolled or attended, and is not in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved school program.

Presence is defined “a single school day on which the student is physically in attendance at scheduled periods of actual instruction at the educational institution in which she or he was enrolled and registered for at least eighty percent (80%) of the full instructional day, or in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved school program for that student."

The next issues, what counts as an Excused vs. Unexcused absence, right now their is very little beyond a note for single daily absences!

This is clearly defined on the DCPS website and parent handbook.

So a parent note to say child was sick is sufficient, do you see were this is going? Remember the fake notes written when that poor child went missing, written by the caretaker not a doctor!!

I think it is sufficient up to 3 days. After than you need a doctor's note.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:80% is true only for In-Seat Attendance. That's what the school is evaluated with. But this is not the same as a student's individual attendance data, which is counted by class period. Missing one period does NOT mean a student is marked absent for their other classes, and it doesn't mean that their grade is docked for classes they haven't missed. DCPS could do a better job messaging this to parents and the community.

I am not sure what data the various journalists and investigators have been using -- (in-seat attendance vs. period-by-period -- but that would be good to know.

From the OSSE report, appendix A:

"Definitions

In this report an absence is defined as “a full or partial school day on which the student is not physically in attendance at scheduled periods of actual instruction at the educational institution in which s/he was enrolled or attended, and is not in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved school program.

Presence is defined “a single school day on which the student is physically in attendance at scheduled periods of actual instruction at the educational institution in which she or he was enrolled and registered for at least eighty percent (80%) of the full instructional day, or in attendance at a school-approved activity that constitutes part of the approved school program for that student."

The next issues, what counts as an Excused vs. Unexcused absence, right now their is very little beyond a note for single daily absences!

This is clearly defined on the DCPS website and parent handbook.

So a parent note to say child was sick is sufficient, do you see were this is going? Remember the fake notes written when that poor child went missing, written by the caretaker not a doctor!!

I think it is sufficient up to 3 days. After than you need a doctor's note.

I think a lot of the current skipping, absent high school students will just right their own notes. Also, if parents allow them to be absent nothing will change, that's why the "excused" policy needs to be reviewed also!

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Anonymous wrote:So then why are students only taking one or two classes senior year? I think the graduation requirement should be that they have a full schedule (including work release)

Another idiot heard from. Work release is for prison. High school isn't prison.

If the kid has fulfilled the requirements, then they shouldn't need to be at school. Full stop. You don't need to know or worry about what students who have completed the requirements do on their own time. It's none of your business.

Or maybe we can all work this way. When you've done what your boss assigned you for the day, I'll follow you around making up extra tasks just to make sure you put in a full day. Sound good?

You are correct - this actually is how real world work/job is done. You get paid to work a full day - you don’t stop at 2pm if you are finished with a task. You ask for. More responsibility and get promoted.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a former Wilson student. During my senior yr, I know I missed over 70 days. Despite missing those days, I graduated, attended the University of Maryland and now have a rewarding career. Just because students miss class, doesn't mean they can't grasp the concepts. Students can watch online content to learn and receive support in other places. School is just a building where learning is "expected" to occur. Tons of learning happens outside of the classroom and online now. Also, alot of the senior courses are unnecessary classes. In my case, I only needed to take an English class to graduate, however my counselor gave me other classes that I could BS through and pass easily without attending regularly.

Just my thoughts

If that’s the case, then there’s obviously something wrong with the high school. Either you weren’t taking classes that were sufficiently challenging and interesting enough to compel your attendance or those classes weren’t offered. If they weren’t offered, that’s a problem that should be fixed. If you weren’t taking the most interesting and rigorous courseload, well, that’s on you and you shouldn’t have been granted a diploma for taking up space and taxpayer money to do nothing your senior year of high school.

NP here. PP, you're a moron. The PPs took the courses required not only to graduate, but to prepare them for college and a career. There is no reason that --- because your odd sense of morality seems to demand it --- that they should have to do more. What should change is the notion that kids who are passing rigorous classes need to sit in those classes, or that kids who have fulfilled their high school requirements need to be in the building.

I'm another who missed most of my senior year. In my case, I was traveling almost every week for athletic or academic competitions. Track, swim team, debate, forensics, model UN, etc. I was hardly ever at school. I graduated top 2% of my class of >500 kids, received a national merit scholarship and had the balance of my tuition at a selective private university paid by a merit-based academic scholarship. I graduated undergrad with cum laud and with honors, got an MBA, started my own business and have done quite well. One of my classmates (back in the '80s) had an office job every afternoon. He'd come to school in a suit and tie, leave at lunch and miss every afternoon. Since he was also the guy who made the few primitive computers at the school run, the let the absences slide.

High school absenteeism comes in multiple flavors.

Social sciences emergency! We need a full class period dedicated to the discussion of “anecdotes are not data”! Somehow, with all that Amazing Education and Professional Success, this poster never learned such a simple concept!

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Anonymous wrote:I am excited to read all of the excuses in here given for the Wilson kids.

No excuses for this until it’s wilson and then the excuses come out.

I'm not seeing a whole lot of excuses.

It's interesting that some of the highest performing students at Wilson have chronic absenteeism. Also, I assume that some of the lowest performing students also have chronic absenteeism. Neither should be given a pass. Or a diploma.

Link?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a former Wilson student. During my senior yr, I know I missed over 70 days. Despite missing those days, I graduated, attended the University of Maryland and now have a rewarding career. Just because students miss class, doesn't mean they can't grasp the concepts. Students can watch online content to learn and receive support in other places. School is just a building where learning is "expected" to occur. Tons of learning happens outside of the classroom and online now. Also, alot of the senior courses are unnecessary classes. In my case, I only needed to take an English class to graduate, however my counselor gave me other classes that I could BS through and pass easily without attending regularly.

Just my thoughts

If that’s the case, then there’s obviously something wrong with the high school. Either you weren’t taking classes that were sufficiently challenging and interesting enough to compel your attendance or those classes weren’t offered. If they weren’t offered, that’s a problem that should be fixed. If you weren’t taking the most interesting and rigorous courseload, well, that’s on you and you shouldn’t have been granted a diploma for taking up space and taxpayer money to do nothing your senior year of high school.

NP here. PP, you're a moron. The PPs took the courses required not only to graduate, but to prepare them for college and a career. There is no reason that --- because your odd sense of morality seems to demand it --- that they should have to do more. What should change is the notion that kids who are passing rigorous classes need to sit in those classes, or that kids who have fulfilled their high school requirements need to be in the building.

I'm another who missed most of my senior year. In my case, I was traveling almost every week for athletic or academic competitions. Track, swim team, debate, forensics, model UN, etc. I was hardly ever at school. I graduated top 2% of my class of >500 kids, received a national merit scholarship and had the balance of my tuition at a selective private university paid by a merit-based academic scholarship. I graduated undergrad with cum laud and with honors, got an MBA, started my own business and have done quite well. One of my classmates (back in the '80s) had an office job every afternoon. He'd come to school in a suit and tie, leave at lunch and miss every afternoon. Since he was also the guy who made the few primitive computers at the school run, the let the absences slide.

High school absenteeism comes in multiple flavors.

Social sciences emergency! We need a full class period dedicated to the discussion of “anecdotes are not data”! Somehow, with all that Amazing Education and Professional Success, this poster never learned such a simple concept!

Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students? Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are? Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning? Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So then why are students only taking one or two classes senior year? I think the graduation requirement should be that they have a full schedule (including work release)

Another idiot heard from. Work release is for prison. High school isn't prison.

If the kid has fulfilled the requirements, then they shouldn't need to be at school. Full stop. You don't need to know or worry about what students who have completed the requirements do on their own time. It's none of your business.

Or maybe we can all work this way. When you've done what your boss assigned you for the day, I'll follow you around making up extra tasks just to make sure you put in a full day. Sound good?

You are correct - this actually is how real world work/job is done. You get paid to work a full day - you don’t stop at 2pm if you are finished with a task. You ask for. More responsibility and get promoted.

No, actually I pay my employees to get the job done, not to fill their chairs. Usually, it takes longer than a full day, but if they knock out everything on their plate at 2:00 on a Friday, I don't need to see them until Monday. In my experience, that's how professional adults work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a former Wilson student. During my senior yr, I know I missed over 70 days. Despite missing those days, I graduated, attended the University of Maryland and now have a rewarding career. Just because students miss class, doesn't mean they can't grasp the concepts. Students can watch online content to learn and receive support in other places. School is just a building where learning is "expected" to occur. Tons of learning happens outside of the classroom and online now. Also, alot of the senior courses are unnecessary classes. In my case, I only needed to take an English class to graduate, however my counselor gave me other classes that I could BS through and pass easily without attending regularly.

Just my thoughts

If that’s the case, then there’s obviously something wrong with the high school. Either you weren’t taking classes that were sufficiently challenging and interesting enough to compel your attendance or those classes weren’t offered. If they weren’t offered, that’s a problem that should be fixed. If you weren’t taking the most interesting and rigorous courseload, well, that’s on you and you shouldn’t have been granted a diploma for taking up space and taxpayer money to do nothing your senior year of high school.

NP here. PP, you're a moron. The PPs took the courses required not only to graduate, but to prepare them for college and a career. There is no reason that --- because your odd sense of morality seems to demand it --- that they should have to do more. What should change is the notion that kids who are passing rigorous classes need to sit in those classes, or that kids who have fulfilled their high school requirements need to be in the building.

I'm another who missed most of my senior year. In my case, I was traveling almost every week for athletic or academic competitions. Track, swim team, debate, forensics, model UN, etc. I was hardly ever at school. I graduated top 2% of my class of >500 kids, received a national merit scholarship and had the balance of my tuition at a selective private university paid by a merit-based academic scholarship. I graduated undergrad with cum laud and with honors, got an MBA, started my own business and have done quite well. One of my classmates (back in the '80s) had an office job every afternoon. He'd come to school in a suit and tie, leave at lunch and miss every afternoon. Since he was also the guy who made the few primitive computers at the school run, the let the absences slide.

High school absenteeism comes in multiple flavors.

Social sciences emergency! We need a full class period dedicated to the discussion of “anecdotes are not data”! Somehow, with all that Amazing Education and Professional Success, this poster never learned such a simple concept!

Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students? Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are? Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning? Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

It's in the report published by OSSE, yeah basically they are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a former Wilson student. During my senior yr, I know I missed over 70 days. Despite missing those days, I graduated, attended the University of Maryland and now have a rewarding career. Just because students miss class, doesn't mean they can't grasp the concepts. Students can watch online content to learn and receive support in other places. School is just a building where learning is "expected" to occur. Tons of learning happens outside of the classroom and online now. Also, alot of the senior courses are unnecessary classes. In my case, I only needed to take an English class to graduate, however my counselor gave me other classes that I could BS through and pass easily without attending regularly.

Just my thoughts

If that’s the case, then there’s obviously something wrong with the high school. Either you weren’t taking classes that were sufficiently challenging and interesting enough to compel your attendance or those classes weren’t offered. If they weren’t offered, that’s a problem that should be fixed. If you weren’t taking the most interesting and rigorous courseload, well, that’s on you and you shouldn’t have been granted a diploma for taking up space and taxpayer money to do nothing your senior year of high school.

NP here. PP, you're a moron. The PPs took the courses required not only to graduate, but to prepare them for college and a career. There is no reason that --- because your odd sense of morality seems to demand it --- that they should have to do more. What should change is the notion that kids who are passing rigorous classes need to sit in those classes, or that kids who have fulfilled their high school requirements need to be in the building.

I'm another who missed most of my senior year. In my case, I was traveling almost every week for athletic or academic competitions. Track, swim team, debate, forensics, model UN, etc. I was hardly ever at school. I graduated top 2% of my class of >500 kids, received a national merit scholarship and had the balance of my tuition at a selective private university paid by a merit-based academic scholarship. I graduated undergrad with cum laud and with honors, got an MBA, started my own business and have done quite well. One of my classmates (back in the '80s) had an office job every afternoon. He'd come to school in a suit and tie, leave at lunch and miss every afternoon. Since he was also the guy who made the few primitive computers at the school run, the let the absences slide.

High school absenteeism comes in multiple flavors.

Social sciences emergency! We need a full class period dedicated to the discussion of “anecdotes are not data”! Somehow, with all that Amazing Education and Professional Success, this poster never learned such a simple concept!

Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students? Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are? Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning? Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

It's in the report published by OSSE, yeah basically they are!

The only OSSE link I've seen is this one: https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/o...d%20Sept.%2027%2C%202017_0.pdf. There is not one word in that document about absenteeism.

Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a former Wilson student. During my senior yr, I know I missed over 70 days. Despite missing those days, I graduated, attended the University of Maryland and now have a rewarding career. Just because students miss class, doesn't mean they can't grasp the concepts. Students can watch online content to learn and receive support in other places. School is just a building where learning is "expected" to occur. Tons of learning happens outside of the classroom and online now. Also, alot of the senior courses are unnecessary classes. In my case, I only needed to take an English class to graduate, however my counselor gave me other classes that I could BS through and pass easily without attending regularly.

Just my thoughts

If that’s the case, then there’s obviously something wrong with the high school. Either you weren’t taking classes that were sufficiently challenging and interesting enough to compel your attendance or those classes weren’t offered. If they weren’t offered, that’s a problem that should be fixed. If you weren’t taking the most interesting and rigorous courseload, well, that’s on you and you shouldn’t have been granted a diploma for taking up space and taxpayer money to do nothing your senior year of high school.

NP here. PP, you're a moron. The PPs took the courses required not only to graduate, but to prepare them for college and a career. There is no reason that --- because your odd sense of morality seems to demand it --- that they should have to do more. What should change is the notion that kids who are passing rigorous classes need to sit in those classes, or that kids who have fulfilled their high school requirements need to be in the building.

I'm another who missed most of my senior year. In my case, I was traveling almost every week for athletic or academic competitions. Track, swim team, debate, forensics, model UN, etc. I was hardly ever at school. I graduated top 2% of my class of >500 kids, received a national merit scholarship and had the balance of my tuition at a selective private university paid by a merit-based academic scholarship. I graduated undergrad with cum laud and with honors, got an MBA, started my own business and have done quite well. One of my classmates (back in the '80s) had an office job every afternoon. He'd come to school in a suit and tie, leave at lunch and miss every afternoon. Since he was also the guy who made the few primitive computers at the school run, the let the absences slide.

High school absenteeism comes in multiple flavors.

Social sciences emergency! We need a full class period dedicated to the discussion of “anecdotes are not data”! Somehow, with all that Amazing Education and Professional Success, this poster never learned such a simple concept!

Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students? Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are? Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning? Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

It's in the report published by OSSE, yeah basically they are!

The only OSSE link I've seen is this one: https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/o...d%20Sept.%2027%2C%202017_0.pdf. There is not one word in that document about absenteeism.

Try again.

This is the OSSE report. It is ALL about absenteeism. I don't see that it distinguishes 'high achieving' Wilson students from others, although all 4-year graduates are separate from those who don't graduate. It is very possible that Cheh, who started this tangent, has access to more granular data than has been released publicly to date.

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/release_content/attachments/Analysis%20of%20Attendance%20and%20Graduation%20Outcomes%20at%20Public%20High%20Schools%20in%20DC%20-%20Jan%2016%202018%20-%20sm.pdf

[Anonymous]

Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students? Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are? Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning? Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

OP here, dipping my toe in this discussion for the first time since initial post. I think it's fairly reasonable to assume that there is a correlation between absenteeism and lower academic achievement. Haven't yet found local data, but did a quick search and found some national data that provides some info about who these students are--for example, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders apparently have the highest rates of chronic absenteeism, whereas Asian students have the lowest rates, followed by white students. Black and Latino students are in the middle. Students who are chronic absent are also less likely to be English-language learners, and more likely to have disabilities. Chronic absenteeism is linked to poor academic achievement and later life outcomes, including poor reading proficiency in early elementary, increased risk of dropping out of high school, and later involvement with the criminal justice system.

I'm sure a few highly achieving students also have many missed days (wasn't there a story about some piano prodigy who missed a lot of days a couple of years back?). But, it sounds like this is not what's going on in the aggregate with respect to absenteeism and academic performance.

Of course, not all of these data may apply to DC, but it's still interesting and presumably at least partially applicable:

https://ed.gov/datastory/chronicabsenteeism.html

Also, apparently program's like Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" were created to address this and other issues related to academic achievement:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/my-brothers-keeper

[Anonymous]

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Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students? Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are? Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning? Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

OP here, dipping my toe in this discussion for the first time since initial post. I think it's fairly reasonable to assume that there is a correlation between absenteeism and lower academic achievement. Haven't yet found local data, but did a quick search and found some national data that provides some info about who these students are--for example, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders apparently have the highest rates of chronic absenteeism, whereas Asian students have the lowest rates, followed by white students. Black and Latino students are in the middle. Students who are chronic absent are also less likely to be English-language learners, and more likely to have disabilities. Chronic absenteeism is linked to poor academic achievement and later life outcomes, including poor reading proficiency in early elementary, increased risk of dropping out of high school, and later involvement with the criminal justice system.

I'm sure a few highly achieving students also have many missed days (wasn't there a story about some piano prodigy who missed a lot of days a couple of years back?). But, it sounds like this is not what's going on in the aggregate with respect to absenteeism and academic performance.

Of course, not all of these data may apply to DC, but it's still interesting and presumably at least partially applicable:

https://ed.gov/datastory/chronicabsenteeism.html

Also, apparently program's like Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" were created to address this and other issues related to academic achievement:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/my-brothers-keeper

The local data. It isn't broken down by race or SES.

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/release_content/attachments/Analysis%20of%20Attendance%20and%20Graduation%20Outcomes%20at%20Public%20High%20Schools%20in%20DC%20-%20Jan%2016%202018%20-%20sm.pdf

Key findings:

Students who are transient (attended 2 high schools during senior year) had highest amount of absenteeism (note: 172 students for class of 2017 attended more than one school).

While absences increase each year, the difference between 9th and 12th grade isn't dramatic.

Students at the comprehensive high schools have more absences than students at either charter high schools or the DCPS application schools.

Students who missed more were less likely to graduate on time, although some students who should NOT have been allowed to graduate due to high absenteeism rates (per DCPS policy) were allowed to pass/graduate.