Student Attendance

data.delaware.gov | Last Updated 3 Oct 2023

This file contains the number of actively enrolled students (as of June), their average days of enrollment, average days absent, and the percentage of students deemed chronically absent within a given school year. The definition of chronically absent as defined by the U.S. Department of Education can be found by searching their website, http://www.ed.gov.

Tags: attendance, education

This dataset has the following 17 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
School YearschoolyeartextSchool year for which record is applicable. For example, 2016 = school year which ended in June 2016.
District CodedistrictcodenumberNumber representing each School District. Statewide data rows will have “0” in this column.
DistrictdistricttextFull name of the School District. Statewide data rows have "State of Delaware" in this column.
School CodeschoolcodenumberNumber representing each School within the school district. Statewide or Districtwide data rows will have “0” in this column.
OrganizationorganizationtextFull name of the Organization which is the School if School Code is given in the row. Districtwide data rows give full name of School District. Statewide rows give "State of Delaware" in this column.
RaceracetextRepresents the race/ethnicity of the unique group of students within a school/district.
GendergendertextRepresents the gender of the unique group of students within a school/district.
GradegradetextRepresents the grade level of the unique group of students within a school/district.
SpecialDemospecialdemotextRepresents the special population status of the unique group of students within a school/district.
GeographygeographytextRepresents the geography of the unique group of students within a school/district.
SubGroupsubgrouptextNames the unique group of students within a school/district described by the combination of Race, Gender, Grade, SpecialDemo, and Geography.
RowstatusrowstatustextIndicates whether the aggregate data in this row has either been REDACTED or REPORTED. If redacted, certain data has been hidden to comply with state and federal privacy laws. For more information, contact the Delaware Department of Education.
StudentsChronicallyAbsentstudentschronicallyabsentnumberThe number of students in the subgroup who were ChronicallyAbsent. A student is considered to be chronically absent if they are absent at least 10% of their enrolled school days within a year.
StudentsstudentsnumberThe number of students who in the subgroup
PctStudentsChronicallyAbsentpctstudentschronicallyabsentnumberThe percent of chronically absent students. This is the number of chronically absent students divided by the number of students.
AvgDaysEnrolledavgdaysenrollednumberThe average number of days students in the specified group were enrolled in the specified organization.
AvgDaysAbsentavgdaysabsentnumberThe average number of days students in the specified group were absent in the specified organization.