EVERY CHILD, EVERY DAYA Conversation about Attendance in Washtenaw County

August 19, 2014

Scott Menzel, Superintendent

Naomi Norman, Executive Director Achievement Initiatives

Washtenaw ISD

The Importance of Being in School

How are absence rates determined?• Any absence from school or from a class period

• excused or unexcused• examples: illness, skipping class, participating in school-sponsored

activity, family vacation

• Calculated as a percent present of total time possible• Example 1

• Student misses 2-3 days per month = 18-27 days (80-85% attendance)

• Example 2• Student is late once a week and misses half a day = 18 days (85%

attendance)

What is chronic absence?• Michigan Department of Education

• Missing 10 days a year or more (5% or more)

• Attendanceworks.org defined as • missing 10% of a school year for any reason• Missing 18 days a year (or more)

• Severe chronic absence • Missing 20% of the school year or more• Missing 36 days or more

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Source: MiSchoolData.org

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Source: MiSchoolData.org

Source: MSDS 2013-14 Attendance Data Washtenaw County

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3663 Students are chronically absent from our 9 local districts (19-35 days absent per year)

2081 Students are severely chronically ab-sent from our 9 local districts (36 days or more per year)

Who is missing school?• Which subgroups of students are impacted most?

Average White student in Washtenaw County attends 171 days of school

Average Black student attends 160 days of school

Source: MSDS 2013-14 Attendance Data Washtenaw County

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Source: MSDS 2013-14 Attendance Data Washtenaw County

Suspension Patterns for Students with IEPs (Special Education)

Type of Disciplinary ConsequenceStudents with IEPs in Washtenaw County

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In School Suspension

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Approximately 6,100 students with disabilities with 1400 discipline consequences

1037 out-of-school suspensions352 in school suspensions11 expulsions

Source: MSDS 2013-14 Discipline Data Washtenaw County

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Average Number of Days for Out-of-School Suspension by District for Students with Disabilities 2013-14

Source: MSDS 2013-14 Discipline Data Washtenaw County

County Average

In Washtenaw County 2013-14:

1037 out of school suspensions for an

average of 3.6 days each

3743 days of school missed

Source: MSDS 2013-14 Discipline Data Washtenaw County

Where do we go from here?

For More Information• Attendance Works: http://www.attendanceworks.org/ • Chronic Absenteeism Report: http

://new.every1graduates.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/FINALChronicAbsenteeismReport_May16.pdf

• Attendance data for all districts and schools in Michigan: http://mischooldata.org

• For more information about this presentation and its data, please contact: Naomi Norman, Washtenaw ISD, nnorman@washtenawisd.org, 734-994-8100 ext. 1263