Tips for Wisconsin students to establish regular attendance in the new school year
Districts across Wisconsin saw students struggle with regular attendance in the years after transitioning back from virtual learning during the pandemic.
There’s a plethora of reasons why a student may miss school, but mental health has increasingly become a barrier to students showing up each day.
Almost half of high schoolers in the Appleton Area School District were chronically absent meaning they missed at least 10% of school — about 18 days — in the 2021-22 school year. That number improved significantly last year, but the district said attendance is still a priority.
For the 2021-22 school year, almost 23% — roughly a quarter — of all students statewide were chronically absent, according to the most current data from the state Department of Public Instruction.
