Attendance
Attendance
“School attendance is the most crucial prerequisite for quality education – students cannot learn if they are not in school”

Attendance

“School attendance is the most crucial prerequisite for quality education – students cannot learn if they are not in school” -  Education Counts.

Effective monitoring of attendance is an important part of how we safeguard our students. From next week we will be introducing an early notification text and email system to alert whaanau when students have not arrived to school in the morning. With our growing numbers of day students, this will help us to work more effectively with whaanau to track student absence and ensure our young people are arriving safely to school.  

You will receive a text and email at 10 a.m. if your child has not been marked present at school.   

As we trial this new system, your feedback is welcomed. 

Student Categories

Student with

Equivalent to

Regular Attendance

Over 90% 

Missing fewer than 5 days across a term

Irregular Absence

>80% and <90%

Absent for between 5 and 9 days across a term

Moderate Absence

>70% and <80%

Absent for between 10 and 14.5 days across a term

Chronic Absence

70% attendance or less

Absent for 15 days or more across a school term

 

Current Attendance Data

School Attendance 

Type

Regularly Attending

Irregular Absence

Moderate Absence

Chronic Absence

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

All

150

40

115

31

63

17

46

12

 

Attendance by Gender 

Type

Regularly Attending

Irregular Absence

Moderate Absence

Chronic Absence

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

Male

106

40

82

31

48

18

31

12

Female

44

41

33

31

15

14

15

14

 

Gender

Attendance Rate (2023 figure in brackets)

Male

83.7 (83.2)

Female

83.6 (80.5)

 

Attendance by Ethnicity 

Type

Regularly Attending

Irregular Absence

Moderate Absence

Chronic Absence

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

Asian

6

75

2

25

0

0

0

0

European

2

67

1

33

0

0

0

0

Maaori

20

26

29

37

16

21

13

17

MELAA

2

100

0

0

0

0

0

0

Pasifika

120

42

83

29

47

17

33

12

 

Attendance by Year Level 

Type

Regularly Attending

Irregular Absence

Moderate Absence

Chronic Absence

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

Number 

%

9

38

42

31

34

16

18

6

7

10

32

37

28

33

15

17

11

13

11

29

45

18

28

11

17

6

9

12

26

38

21

30

11

16

11

16

13

25

39

17

27

10

16

12

19

 

  

 

Mrs Charlotte Saunders
Deputy Principal

 

This article was originally posted on: August, 8th 2024