GPRA 5. Attendance rate of students in 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade.

Guidance Document Definition. Average daily attendance (ADA) is typically used by school districts to measure school attendance and it is required under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. However, researchers have recently identified that chronic absenteeism, or those students who miss 10 percent or more of school days is a strong predictor for academic risk and school dropout (Sanchez 2012). Therefore for GPRA 5, Promise Neighborhoods should at a minimum collect the average daily attendance rates for 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. Promise Neighborhoods are also encouraged to work with their school districts to measure the chronic absenteeism rate for each grade in each of the target Promise Neighborhood schools, if local school districts are not measuring this already. This would be calculated by counting the number and share of students from the Promise Neighborhood schools who are absent for excused or unexcused reasons for 10 percent or more of the available school days.

Our definition conforms to the Guidance Document. Administrative data are collected directly from school districts and recorded in a customized spreadsheet.

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