New Attendance Guide for Ohio schools and districts

7/17/2023

Ohio’s Attendance Guide is now available for the 2023-2024 school year. The guide emphasizes the importance of focusing on early intervention and prevention strategies to improve student attendance and lower chronic absenteeism by providing district- and school-level activities and resources.

To supplement these resources, the guide also provides schools and districts important questions to consider in preparation for the beginning of the new school year. For example:

•  Do we promote a culture of attendance on a year-round basis?
• Do we have early outreach protocols to families before absences add up?
• Do schools routinely collect information from students and families to understand attendance barriers?
• Does our team monitor attendance and chronic absence data, trends and patterns every week?

For more information about supporting student attendance, visit the Department’s Attendance Support webpage.

Direct questions to attendance@education.ohio.gov or (614) 387-2202.