GovWire

This presents absence statistics relating to the 2023 to 2024 autumn term.

It provides information on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in:

• state-funded primary schools
• state-funded secondary schools
• state-funded special schools

It includes information on:

• reasons for absence
• persistent absence
• absence information for state-funded alternative provision (including PRU)

The release uses pupil-level absence data that we collect in the school census.