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DfEE home Absence Tables home | Performance Tables home PUPIL ABSENCE IN MAINTAINED PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND IN THE 1997/98 SCHOOL YEAR Local Education Authority Number of day pupils of compulsory school age Authorised absence Unauthorised absence % of half days missed average number of half days missed per absent pupil % of half days missed average number of half days missed per absent pupil Barking and Dagenham 14,386 6.5 21 1.2 11 Barnet 22,048 5.5 18 0.5 11 Barnsley 17,730 6.1 19 0.7 10 Bath and North East Somerset 11,423 4.8 16 0.3 10 Bedfordshire 20,966 5.7 18 0.3 9 Bexley 18,187 6.0 20 0.3 8 Birmingham 88,916 7.2 22 0.8 10 Blackburn with Darwen 13,311 6.6 21 0.7 12 Blackpool 11,267 6.1 20 0.8 12 Bolton 23,560 5.5 18 0.3 10 Bournemouth 10,269 6.9 21 0.6 8 Bracknell Forest 8,553 5.2 17 0.3 7 Bradford 30,603 5.4 18 1.1 11 Brent 16,851 5.7 19 0.8 11 Brighton and Hove 14,980 6.0 19 0.7 9 Bristol, City of 27,616 5.9 19 1.0 11 Bromley 21,755 5.3 17 0.4 9 Buckinghamshire 40,474 5.1 17 0.2 8 Bury 15,108 5.3 18 0.4 10 Calderdale 17,548 5.4 18 0.4 10 Cambridgeshire 37,474 5.0 16 0.4 9 Camden 9,200 7.0 24 1.1 12 Cheshire 51, 531 4.6 16 0.4 9 Cornwall 37,660 5.6 18 0.4 8 Coventry 25,721 6.4 20 0.4 9 Croydon 24,531 6.2 20 0.6 10 Cumbria 37,025 5.5 18 0.2 10 Darlington 8,278 6.2 20 0.2 9 Derby City 18,887 5.7 18 0.8 10 Derbyshire 56,723 5.1 17 0.3 8 Devon 50,254 5.5 17 0.3 7 Doncaster 24,811 6.4 21 0.4 11 Dorset 22,731 5.6 18 0.4 7 Dudley 25,212 6.1 19 0.2 8 Durham 37,914 6.6 22 0.1 8 Ealing 21,041 6.6 21 0.5 10 East Riding of Yorkshire 24,050 5.1 17 0.2 8 East Sussex 32,622 5.4 17 0.4 7 Enfield 22,417 5.6 19 0.9 12 Essex 98,793 5.5 18 0.4 8 Gateshead 15,197 5.6 18 0.5 11 Gloucestershire 42,070 5.0 16 0.3 8 Greenwich 16,840 5.9 19 1.7 13 Hackney 14,274 7.1 23 1.3 12 Halton 11,517 5.4 18 0.7 10 Hammersmith and Fulham 7,024 6.5 22 1.3 13 Hampshire 93,397 4.9 16 0.3 8 Haringey 16,129 5.9 20 1.4 13 Harrow 17,148 6.3 25 0.5 8 Hartlepool 8,375 6.0 19 0.5 11 Havering 18,368 5.7 18 0.2 6 Herefordshire 12,961 5.2 18 0.2 8 Hertfordshire 78,242 4.7 16 0.3 8 Hillingdon 18,494 6.0 19 0.8 9 Hounslow 16,014 7.1 22 0.9 10 Isle of Wight 6,064 6.8 22 0.1 7 Isles of Scilly 143 7.3 21 0.1 6 Islington 13,314 6.0 21 1.1 12 Kensington and Chelsea 5,186 6.5 21 1.4 13 Kent 100,182 5.6 18 0.4 9 Kingston upon Hull, City of 23,491 7.2 23 0.8 9 Kingston upon Thames 9,317 5.5 17 0.3 8 Kirklees 31,894 5.1 17 0.8 10 Knowsley 15,059 6.5 22 0.6 9 Lambeth 15,840 6.7 22 1.3 11 Lancashire 92,669 5.2 17 0.3 9 Leeds 55,163 5.9 19 0.7 11 Leicester City 24,924 7.4 24 0.6 9 Leicestershire 46,201 5.5 18 0.1 7 Lewisham 17,364 6.0 19 1.3 11 Lincolnshire 47,688 5.1 16 0.3 9 Liverpool 36,718 6.7 22 0.8 14 London, City of 166 2.5 10 1.9 11 Luton 17,028 6.1 19 0.6 8 Manchester 35,946 7.6 25 1.2 14 Medway 22,009 5.7 18 0.5 8 Merton 12,919 6.1 19 0.8 10 Middlesbrough 13,003 6.4 21 0.5 10 Milton Keynes 19,818 6.3 20 0.4 10 Newbury 11,357 4.9 16 0.2 7 Newcastle upon Tyne 17,029 6.0 20 0.6 11 Newham 23,302 6.1 19 2.0 11 Norfolk 58,409 5.6 18 0.4 10 North East Lincolnshire 14,438 6.1 19 0.2 7 North Lincolnshire 12,707 5.6 18 0.3 7 North Somerset 13,249 5.1 17 0.2 8 North Tyneside 13,036 5.4 18 0.1 9 North Yorkshire 41,365 4.8 16 0.2 8 Northamptonshire 45,507 5.1 17 0.5 9 Northumberland 16,275 5.2 17 0.1 9 Nottingham City 22,535 6.3 23 1.2 12 Nottinghamshire 57,755 5.2 17 0.4 9 Oldham 19,632 6.5 24 0.6 10 Oxfordshire 39,528 5.4 18 0.3 7 Peterborough City 13,831 6.2 20 0.5 7 Plymouth 19,750 5.5 18 0.5 8 Poole 9,836 6.1 20 0.6 7 Portsmouth 14,603 6.6 20 0.8 10 Reading 9,875 5.6 18 1.0 10 Redbridge 18,495 5.9 19 0.8 9 Redcar and Cleveland 13,015 6.1 20 0.3 12 Richmond upon Thames 10,272 5.3 17 0.1 8 Rochdale 17,958 6.1 22 0.5 11 Rotherham 21,504 6.1 20 0.6 10 Rutland 2,137 5.3 18 0.0 5 Salford 17,653 6.6 22 1.1 17 Sandwell 25,199 7.2 22 0.4 10 Sefton 23,156 5.9 19 0.3 8 Sheffield 38,265 5.8 20 1.1 11 Shropshire 20,273 5.1 16 0.2 6 Slough 8,864 6.4 21 0.6 9 Solihull 18,287 6.1 19 0.1 5 Somerset 33,802 5.3 17 0.2 8 South Gloucestershire 19,825 5.0 16 0.2 7 South Tyneside 12,649 5.7 18 0.1 9 Southampton 16,640 6.0 19 0.9 10 Southend-on-Sea 11,893 5.5 18 0.7 10 Southwark 18,726 5.5 20 1.7 15 St Helens 14,315 5.9 20 0.2 8 Staffordshire 60,643 5.2 17 0.2 7 Stockport 22,835 5.2 17 0.4 8 Stockton on Tees 16,255 5.9 19 0.1 10 Stoke on Trent 20,781 6.2 20 0.5 11 Suffolk 39,075 5.1 16 0.2 8 Sunderland 24,447 5.9 19 0.2 13 Surrey 66,527 5.5 18 0.2 8 Sutton 12,791 5.5 18 0.4 9 Swindon 15,752 5.7 19 0.5 9 Tameside 18,694 6.5 21 0.3 11 The Wrekin 13,087 5.9 18 0.5 8 Thurrock 11,792 5.9 19 0.8 12 Torbay 8,663 6.1 19 0.3 7 Tower Hamlets 15,541 6.6 21 1.7 10 Trafford 16,993 6.1 20 0.3 10 Wakefield 26,748 5.7 19 0.7 11 Walsall 22,789 6.8 22 0.8 10 Waltham Forest 17,902 6.5 21 0.8 9 Wandsworth 14,090 6.3 21 0.6 10 Warrington 16,570 4.9 17 0.3 9 Warwickshire 38,485 5.5 18 0.2 9 West Sussex 54,498 5.8 19 0.2 7 Westminster, City of 8,177 7.5 24 1.1 11 Wigan 25,248 5.8 22 0.3 12 Wiltshire 30,984 4.6 15 0.3 7 Windsor & Maidenhead 8,078 5.3 17 0.3 9 Wirral 26,215 5.6 19 0.5 12 Wokingham 12,146 4.4 15 0.3 8 Wolverhampton 20,580 6.9 22 0.9 13 Worcestershire 34,092 5.4 18 0.4 10 York, City of 12,350 4.9 16 0.4 11 ENGLAND 3,730,357 5.7 19 0.5 10

 

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