The Attendance Line Item Nobody Was Selling To: Reaching K-12 Student-Services Directors
About 22% of K-12 students were chronically absent in the 2024-25 school year — roughly 10.8 million kids — and in nearly half of large urban districts the rate topped 30%, according to RAND's American School District Panel. That number stopped being a compliance footnote years ago. Districts now fund attendance recovery as a standing line item, and the person…
