September is BPSB Attendance Awareness Month.
Did you know that based on research from Attendance Works, a national initiative on chronic absence, a verifiable statistic is that by the sixth grade, chronic absence is a leading indicator that a student will drop out of high school.
Further data from a study on chronic absence found that students who were chronically absent for three consecutive years were significantly less likely to be proficient on standardized tests in reading and math compared to their peers who attended school regularly. For example, in one state, only 10-13% of chronically absent students were proficient, while 38-40% of regularly attending students were proficient.