Students in the United States are far more absent than before the pandemic

Nearly 70 percent of students attended schools that experienced chronic absenteeism during the 2021-2022 school year, according to data compiled by the Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Before the pandemic, 25% of students attended a school with high levels of chronic absenteeism, but during the 2021-2022 school year the percentage rose to 66%, seconds in the report by Attendance Works, a nonprofit focused on absenteeism, and Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center, which focuses on high school graduation. Nearly 14.7 million students, or 29.7 percent, were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year.

“Before the pandemic, going to school every day was still the norm,” Hedy Chang, executive director of Attendance Works, he said The New York Times.

The states with the highest rate of chronic absenteeism in 2022 included Arizona, Alaska, and Washington, DC at 46.3%, 45.80%, and 43.9%, respectively. seconds in the report.

According to the report, states with the highest gross numbers of chronically absent students include California, Texas and Florida with 1,935,997, 1,498,353 and 984,334 respectively. States with the lowest chronic absenteeism rates for the 2021-2022 school year include Idaho, New Jersey, and Washington state at 3.5 percent, 17.2 percent, and 18.2 percent, respectively.

“It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing,” Chang told the NYT. “When you have extreme levels of chronic absence, it’s harder to create meaningful relationships with children. It also reflects a lack of meaningful relationships with children.”

An analysis of preliminary data revealed that in the 2022-2023 school year 11 states had an overall decrease of more than 2% in chronic absenteeism rates. seconds in Face-to-face work.

Students who are chronically absent of class are the ones who suffer the most learning losses. K-12 reading scores saw their biggest drop since the pandemic, while math scores declined in 2022 for the first time.

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