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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know someone asked why ATS is different from other option schools and someone else mentioned absenteeism.  For  reference. ATS has 1.7% of kids with chronic absenteeism. Claremont is 18.83% and Campbell is 19.94%.

Everyone can discuss this to death. But it is the makeup of the school. THAT is the difference. ATS doesn't have some magic solution. They haven't solved education. They have a very specific self selecting group of families who highly value education. And that is super wonderful.

It is just hard to fight against nearly 20% of the school being chronically absent. The population of the school is just different.

Also, this got me looking at absentee rates at schools.

Drew 23.66%
Randolph 21.76%
Barcroft 15.5%

Lets Compare to N. Arlington schools

Nottingham .51%
Taylor 4.02% 
Cardinal 2.14%

Chronic Absenteeism is probably the real problem we need to solve to help close the achievement gap.

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The Claremont and Campbell #s are surprising . Like ATS, these are families that know enough to get into a lottery and are choosing a particular school . So what’s going on that nearly 20% are chronically absent?[/quote]

Campbell parent here and I find the number really surprising also. Our test scores in the past decade or so have been the highest among Title 1 schools, so this chronic absence number doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe it counts Pre-K kids, too? That might be it, because Pre-K kids are sick a lot more and I would guess parents are far more likely to let their 4 year old miss Pre-K for vacations, mild illness, school refusal, etc. than K-5 kids. Might also be the reason for Claremont? Don’t they have a few Pre-K classes also? [/quote]

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