This research brief focuses on Chronic Absenteeism (CA) in Utah public schools. We address:
• The students who are most likely to be chronically absent
• A demographic profile of chronically absent students
• Patterns in chronic absenteeism over time
• Relationships between chronic absenteeism and lower standardized test scores
• Relationships between chronic absenteeism and dropping out
• The extent to which grade point average
(GPA) mediates the relationship between
chronic absenteeism and dropping out
Contents
Characteristics of Chronically Absent
Students 2
Who are the Chronically Absent
Students ? 6
CA Across School Years 8
The CA-Dropout Relationship 10