Chronic School Absence

Chronic school absence is the proportion of students attending Minneapolis Public High Schools who missed at least 5% of school days (equivalent to 9 or more school days) during the 2012-2013 school year. The higher the percentage, the greater the negative impact on community health. Data are from the MPS online scorecard –

95% attendance

Chronic school absence affects student participation and engagement in school. Regardless of household income, chronic school absence is related to problems learning, poor academic performance, lower standardized test scores and higher high-school dropout rates. Chronic school absence is influenced by many household, school, and community-level factors. Some of these factors are the community prevalence of chronic diseases (such as asthma,; quality and accessibility of the health care system; community safety; poverty and family circumstances; school social environment, including bullying and discrimination); and social cohesion and trust. Chronic School Absence is in the Health Systems and Public Safety domain.

Neighborhoodsort descending Indicator Value Rank
Armatage 28.1% 5
Audubon Park 53.0% 32
Bancroft 57.3% 34
Beltrami -% -
Bottineau 82.6% 44
Bryant -% -
Bryn - Mawr -% -
Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) -% -
Camden Industrial -% -
Cedar - Isles - Dean -% -
Cedar Riverside -% -
Central 40.3% 20
Cleveland 55.1% 33
Columbia Park -% -
Como 65.5% 39
Cooper -% -
Corcoran 49.9% 28
Diamond Lake -% -
Downtown East -% -
Downtown West -% -
East Calhoun (ECCO) -% -
East Harriet 27.9% 4
East Isles -% -
East Phillips 100.0% 47
Elliot Park 0.0% 1
Ericsson 31.9% 9
Field 28.4% 6
Folwell -% -
Fulton 23.3% 3
Hale 23.0% 2
Harrison 88.4% 45
Hawthorne 44.1% 25
Hiawatha 35.2% 13
Holland 59.9% 36
Howe 50.1% 29
Humboldt Industrial Area -% -
Jordan 41.1% 21
Keewaydin 36.6% 14
Kenny 35.0% 12
Kenwood 64.6% 38
King Field -% -
Lind - Bohanon 51.2% 30
Linden Hills 36.7% 17
Logan Park -% -
Longfellow 69.1% 41
Loring Park 37.9% 18
Lowry Hill -% -
Lowry Hill East 42.3% 24
Lyndale 33.3% 10
Lynnhurst -% -
Marcy Holmes 29.2% 7
Marshall Terrace -% -
McKinley -% -
Mid - City Industrial -% -
Midtown Phillips 34.1% 11
Minnehaha -% -
Morris Park -% -
Near - North -% -
Nicollet Island - East Bank -% -
North Loop -% -
Northeast Park -% -
Northrop -% -
Page -% -
Phillips West -% -
Powderhorn Park 70.7% 42
Prospect Park - East River Road 73.8% 43
Regina -% -
Seward 68.2% 40
Sheridan 64.4% 37
Shingle Creek 52.8% 31
St. Anthony East -% -
St. Anthony West -% -
Standish 49.6% 27
Steven's Square - Loring Heights 41.9% 22
Sumner - Glenwood (Heritage Park) -% -
Tangletown 48.4% 26
University of Minnesota -% -
Ventura Village 96.0% 46
Victory 36.6% 14
Waite Park 38.3% 19
Webber - Camden 42.2% 23
Wenonah 36.6% 14
West Calhoun -% -
Whittier 58.3% 35
Willard - Hay -% -
Windom 30.9% 8
Windom Park -% -

Key Citations: 1. Backlund E, Sorlie PD, Johnson NJ. A comparison of the relationships of education and income with mortality: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. Soc Sci Med. 1999;49(10):1373-84.

 

2. Fowler MG, Johnson MP, Atkinson SS. School achievement and absence in children with chronic health conditions. J Pediatr. 1985 Apr;106(4):683-7.

 

3. Balfanz, R., & Byrnes, V. Chronic Absenteeism: Summarizing What We Know From Nationally Available Data. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools. 2012