​Data indicate that missing more than five days of school each year, regardless of the cause, begins to impact student academic performance and starts shaping attitudes about school. 

Chronically truant students are not the only students negatively impacted by absences For students in the 6th grade through the 9th grade, student attendance is a better predictor of dropping out of school than test scores. 

This predictor is not limited to chronically truant students. Excused absences and unexcused absences have similar impact on student academic performance.

Do you have an effective practice to improve student attendance? Tell us about it! wholechild@doe.k12.ga.us

• Student Attendance and School Climate Protocol Committee Considerations
• Language as a Missing Link for Children and Youth: Definitions, Symptoms, and Screening​​
• ​Fifteen Effective Strategies for Improving Student Attendance and Truancy Prevention
• Every School Day Counts: The Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Attendance Data
• Dropout Prevention -What Works Clearinghouse Series
• Student Attendance Tracking: Challenges and Effective Practices
• Increasing Student Attendance: Strategies from Re-search and Practice
• Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absences in the Early Grades
• School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?
• Truancy / Student Attendance Program Registry
• Every Student, Every Day: A Community Toolkit to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism
• Every Student, Every Day: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism
• Writing Truancy Notices that Can Improve Attendance​