An increasing number of Vallejo City Unified School District students are regularly attending school a year after rolling out a plan to improve its students’ low attendance rates. Newly released data shows that the district has seen a drastic reduction in its chronic absenteeism rate, the rate of students who miss 10% or more of the required instructional days.
VCUSD’s chronic absenteeism rate skyrocketed after the COVID-19 pandemic began. In the 2018-19 school year, VCUSD’s chronic absenteeism rate was 24.1%. But during the 2021-22 school year, the first year the California Department of Education resumed publishing school absence data after the pandemic hit, its rate was 58.1%. While the district’s rate dipped in the 2022-23 school year, it remained high at 49.2%.
Source: Vallejo school district sees promising attendance trends