Update: Chronic Absenteeism in Tennessee
June 2023
Author: Dana Spoonmore
OREA has produced an update on student attendance in Tennessee public schools. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on recent school years has been significant, affecting chronic absenteeism rates and disrupting the collection of attendance data and related accountability measures. Tennessee’s chronic absenteeism rate rose by 7 percentage points (55 percent) between 2019 and 2022.
This legislative brief is an update to OREA’s 2021 report Student Attendance in Tennessee.