Attendance Profile: El Paso & San Antonio

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Research shows that when education systems, families, communities, and students work together to ensure schools are engaging and welcoming spaces; students stay engaged and absences are reduced. Research also shows that when students attend schools regularly, they have better long- and short-term educational outcomes. As Texas emerges from the pandemic, chronic absence and average absence rates continue to be higher than pre-pandemic rates and preliminary analyses suggest that regular attendance continues to be strongly associated with better short-term academic outcomes for students.

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24%

41,928 / 175,824

El Paso

Chronic Absence Rate

25%

120,245 / 482,433

San Antonio

Chronic Absence Rate

Average Days Absent Lowest in Middle Grades, Highest for Pre-K

Chronic Absence Rates Lowest in Middle Grades, Highest for Pre-K

Texas Middle Schools Had the Lowest Number of Average Days Absent

Chronic Absence Rate Stable for Past Ten Years Until Covid-19 Impact

Disparities Exist in Chronic Absenteeism by Household Income

Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism by Household Income at Highest Level in Decade

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Chronic Absenteeism Varies by Race

Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism by Race at Highest Level in Decade

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Digging Deeper: Gender, Income, and Race Play a Role in Chronic Absenteeism

Chronic Absence Rates, 2023

About this data:

E3 Alliance relies primarily on data from the University of Texas Education Research Center (ERC). This data allows for a year-by-year understanding of chronic absenteeism based on where a student attends school. This data pertains to Pre-K through 12th grade students who were enrolled within the state of Texas during a given school year.

Following are items to note:

Chronic absenteeism rates reflect whether a student was present for less than 90% of the days the student was enrolled.

Pandemic era data on attendance should be interpreted differently from prior years, for example, students enrolled in schools that did not report attendance data for the last 12 weeks of School Year 2019-2020 were marked as present during that time period. During the 2020-2021 school year, remote learners were often determined absent based on assignment submission timeframes.

There is a delay in data availability due to state approval within the ERC and analysis time. As such, if you choose to explore data from Central Texas, the graphs below present attendance data in the most recent available year in Texas schools.

Outcomes that reference data from 2021, 2022, or 2023 do not include San Marcos CISD, due to a data discrepancy.

See more Central Texas data in the classic slide gallery.

The conclusions of this research do not necessarily reflect the opinions or official position of the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, or the State of Texas.