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In the 2022–23 school year, 19.5% of K-12 public district and charter students were chronically absent, far above pre-pandemic levels. The report analyzes trends using Wisconsin DPI definitions and highlights persistent spikes since 2021, including higher rates for young learners, students of color, and economically disadvantaged students.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/chronic-absenteeism-persists-in-all-corners-of-wisconsin-analysed-data-and-potential-causes/587719/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/chronic-absenteeism-persists-in-all-corners-of-wisconsin-analysed-data-and-potential-causes/587719.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Melati","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-09","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":44},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"How does Wisconsin define chronic absenteeism in this report?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Wisconsin DPI defines chronic absenteeism as missing at least 10% of possible attendance days, including excused absences. In many districts, this corresponds to 18 or more missed days in a year.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What were Wisconsin’s chronic absenteeism rates in 2021, 2022, and 2023?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The report states that the 2021 rate rose to 16.1%, increased to 22.7% statewide in 2022, and remained at 19.5% in 2023.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Which student groups experienced the highest chronic absenteeism rates?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Across the years studied, the report notes that Black and American Indian or Alaskan Native students had the highest chronic absenteeism rates each year. Economically disadvantaged students also had nearly three times the rate of non-economically disadvantaged peers in 2023.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},587719,1792640261,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":44,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":19,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":52,"preview_page_count":4},962085570644,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_994ba38a5ba835b3df7d355c54d3ed8d","Chronic Absenteeism Persists in All Corners of Wisconsin  \nDespite a decline from the previous year, rates of chronic absenteeism for Wisconsin’s students – defined as missing more than one in ten school days for any reason – remained at historically high levels in 2023 forchildren of every race, grade level, and socioeconomic status. District leaders point to many causes, including lasting impacts ofthe pandemic. Some have made improvements through strong communication campaigns  \nand concerted, districtwide efforts.  \nI  \nn the 2022-23 school year (referred to in this brief as 2023), 19.5% of Wisconsin’s K-12 public school  \ndistrict and charter students were chronically absent. While this number represents a welcome decline from the record number of students who were chronically absent in the prior school year, it is still dramatically higher than pre-pandemic levels.  \nLast year, we delved into the data on chronic absenteeism in Wisconsin and found that, in 2021, chronic absenteeism rose alarmingly and was highest for districts with large shares of students of color and students from low-income households. Since that time, two more years of data have been published, showing rates even higher than in 2021. Here, we analyze these latest data in an effort to plumb not only the problem but also potential causes and solutions.  \nThe data we use come from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) , which defines chronic absenteeism as missing at least 10% of possible attendance days, including excused absences. In most school districts, this amounts to a student missing 18 or more days of school in a year.  \nIssue affects many students  \nAbsenteeism rates remained below 13% from 2006, the first year for which we have public data, through 2020. We raised alarms when the rate ticked up to 16. 1% in 2021, especially since reporting variability during the pandemic might have led to an undercount. After soaring to 22.7% statewide in 2022, the 2023 rate of  \n19.5% was still more than six percentage points above  \n2019. (DPI notes that the attendance data collection  \nsystem changed for 2017, which may have resulted in more accurately reported rates in subsequent years. DPI also issued a data errata for 2020 when not every school continued reporting attendance through the end of that school year.)  \nOn average, students of every grade level, gender, race or ethnicity, English learner status, disability status, and level of economic disadvantage experienced these trends: All saw elevated chronic absenteeism in 2021, a further spike in 2022, and a middling recovery in 2023.  \nTypically, high school students have the highest levels of chronic absenteeism. This held true before, during, and after the pandemic. In 2023, more than a quarter of the state’s 11th and 12th graders were chronically absent, compared to fewer than one in five students in first through seventh grade.  \nWhen it comes to recovery, however, students in the youngest grade levels remained the furthest above their pre-pandemic norm (see Figure 1 on following page) . For example, Wisconsin’s 12th graders were chronically absent at a rate of 27.6% in 2023, an increase of 3.5 percentage points over their 2019 levels. The 16.8% of first graders chronically absent in 2023, on the other hand, was a full 7.4 points above the 2019 rate even after dropping from a high of 21.1% in 2022.  \nAbsenteeism in the youngest grades is particularly concerning since habits formed in the early years may carry through students’ academic careers, setting up today’s elementary school students to experience chronic absenteeism in future years at rates even higher than today’s middle and high school students.  \nResearch has tied chronic absenteeism to lower student achievement, decreased student mental health, higher dropout rates, and more challenges in adulthood.  \nWisconsin students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds were chronically absent at substantially higher rates in 2023 than","cbCaipP8XGX2ip4m","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipP8XGX2ip4m","pdf",210591,"English","# Chronic absenteeism in 2023\n## Statewide trends since 2006\n## Grade-level patterns and recovery\n## Racial and economic disparities\n## District-level impact","[{\"question\":\"How does Wisconsin define chronic absenteeism in this report?\",\"answer\":\"Wisconsin DPI defines chronic absenteeism as missing at least 10% of possible attendance days, including excused absences. In many districts, this corresponds to 18 or more missed days in a year.\"},{\"question\":\"What were Wisconsin’s chronic absenteeism rates in 2021, 2022, and 2023?\",\"answer\":\"The report states that the 2021 rate rose to 16.1%, increased to 22.7% statewide in 2022, and remained at 19.5% in 2023.\"},{\"question\":\"Which student groups experienced the highest chronic absenteeism rates?\",\"answer\":\"Across the years studied, the report notes that Black and American Indian or Alaskan Native students had the highest chronic absenteeism rates each year. Economically disadvantaged students also had nearly three times the rate of non-economically disadvantaged peers in 2023.\"}]","Chronic Absenteeism Persists in All Corners of Wisconsin - Analysed Data and Potential Causes | PDF",1792062798]