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DfEE home Absence Tables home | Performance Tables home PUPIL ABSENCE IN MAINTAINED SECONDARY 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 9,438 8.3 28 2.0 24 Barnet 17,436 7.0 24 0.8 19 Barnsley 12,935 9.0 30 1.9 20 Bath and North East Somerset 10,224 6.8 22 0.4 13 Bedfordshire 31,975 6.6 21 0.4 12 Bexley 13,867 8.3 26 0.5 17 Birmingham 62,637 8.9 28 1.7 20 Blackburn with Darwen 9,575 8.7 28 1.3 20 Blackpool 6,978 9.3 30 1.6 25 Bolton 17,130 8.0 27 1.8 28 Bournemouth 8,373 7.7 24 1.0 15 Bracknell Forest 4,184 6.5 21 0.5 12 Bradford 42,593 7.6 25 2.0 21 Brent 12,432 7.3 24 0.7 18 Brighton and Hove 8,859 8.8 28 1.1 23 Bristol, City of 15,878 10.3 30 1.6 22 Bromley 16,018 7.4 24 0.6 13 Buckinghamshire 21,333 6.7 23 0.4 15 Bury 10,296 7.3 25 0.6 18 Calderdale 12,543 8.3 27 0.7 16 Cambridgeshire 27,475 7.7 24 0.7 14 Camden 8,661 8.0 26 1.8 26 Cheshire 39,873 6.9 22 0.7 17 Cornwall 27,713 8.3 25 0.4 10 Coventry 17,896 8.7 28 1.3 24 Croydon 15,604 8.6 29 0.6 14 Cumbria 29,266 7.8 26 0.6 19 Darlington 5,691 9.3 30 1.6 32 Derby City 13,404 7.9 26 0.8 15 Derbyshire 40,934 7.1 23 1.1 20 Devon 33,526 7.9 24 0.7 11 Doncaster 18,672 9.8 32 2.1 27 Dorset 24,609 7.2 26 0.4 11 Dudley 15,855 7.4 24 0.6 17 Durham 28,568 9.3 30 1.5 29 Ealing 12,729 7.4 24 1.4 20 East Riding of Yorkshire 18,926 7.7 25 0.9 13 East Sussex 22,304 7.7 24 1.3 20 Enfield 16,637 7.6 25 1.0 14 Essex 72,827 7.6 24 0.8 17 Gateshead 10,656 8.9 32 1.6 39 Gloucestershire 31,497 7.8 25 0.3 12 Greenwich 12,387 8.9 28 2.4 25 Hackney 7,628 7.6 26 2.2 24 Halton 8,220 8.5 27 1.2 25 Hammersmith and Fulham 4,594 8.2 28 2.8 36 Hampshire 62,404 6.9 22 0.8 17 Haringey 10,049 7.8 31 1.9 22 Harrow 8,478 8.2 26 0.8 21 Hartlepool 5,012 7.8 27 2.6 39 Havering 14,084 7.1 23 0.7 14 Herefordshire 8,897 7.6 25 0.6 22 Hertfordshire 59,669 6.9 23 0.6 16 Hillingdon 12,979 7.7 25 1.4 21 Hounslow 13,165 8.6 26 1.0 17 Isle of Wight 10,468 8.2 26 0.6 11 Isles of Scilly 90 6.9 21 0.4 20 Islington 7,755 8.3 28 2.7 22 Kensington and Chelsea 3,098 7.3 23 2.4 24 Kent 73,728 7.8 25 0.6 16 Kingston upon Hull, City of 15,609 11.6 37 3.7 34 Kingston upon Thames 6,830 7.8 24 0.8 22 Kirklees 24,343 7.4 25 1.3 22 Knowsley 9,487 9.8 31 3.1 32 Lambeth 6,925 8.8 28 1.5 15 Lancashire 66,474 7.6 25 0.8 21 Leeds 40,637 8.3 27 1.9 26 Leicester City 16,528 8.0 27 1.9 24 Leicestershire 36,524 7.1 23.9 1.0 21.4 Lewisham 10,454 8.2 28 2.6 24 Lincolnshire 34,740 7.2 24 0.9 21 Liverpool 29,397 10.4 35 2.1 26 London, City of 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A Luton 10,498 7.2 23 0.9 12 Manchester 23,182 12.1 41 2.6 33 Medway 16,136 8.0 25 0.9 18 Merton 6,799 8.5 29 2.5 23 Middlesbrough 8,020 10.6 35 1.7 21 Milton Keynes 9,652 9.5 30 0.7 18 Newbury 9,276 6.4 21 0.4 15 Newcastle upon Tyne 16,459 9.9 34 1.1 27 Newham 16,382 7.2 25 3.2 23 Norfolk 36,977 8.5 26 0.9 18 North East Lincolnshire 11,129 8.8 28 2.3 35 North Lincolnshire 10,418 7.4 25 1.2 21 North Somerset 10,502 7.0 22 1.1 24 North Tyneside 13,286 7.7 25 0.8 27 North Yorkshire 32,292 6.6 22 0.4 17 Northamptonshire 40,945 7.5 25 0.8 16 Northumberland 26,789 6.9 23 0.5 20 Nottingham City 13,251 9.5 31 3.9 34 Nottinghamshire 43,447 7.8 25 1.5 23 Oldham 16,279 8.2 27 1.8 24 Oxfordshire 33,088 7.0 23 1.4 16 Peterborough City 11,077 8.4 26 1.2 18 Plymouth 15,531 7.4 23 0.7 14 Poole 6,641 8.1 25 0.6 13 Portsmouth 9,295 9.5 32 1.9 28 Reading 5,161 6.9 24 1.4 29 Redbridge 14,121 7.3 23 0.4 11 Redcar and Cleveland 8,781 9.4 30 1.3 31 Richmond upon Thames 7,801 7.8 25 1.0 22 Rochdale 12,817 8.8 28 1.9 25 Rotherham 17,750 8.3 28 1.5 29 Rutland 2,206 6.6 22 0.7 16 Salford 12,492 10.6 34 1.2 20 Sandwell 18,577 9.4 30 1.8 20 Sefton 18,160 8.1 26 0.7 15 Sheffield 26,972 9.1 29 2.2 29 Shropshire 15,760 6.8 22 0.7 12 Slough 5,667 6.9 23 1.1 16 Solihull 14,104 7.2 25 0.6 22 Somerset 27,308 7.4 23 0.5 14 South Gloucestershire 12,662 7.5 23 1.1 12 South Tyneside 9,925 9.3 31 0.3 14 Southampton 11,690 7.9 25 1.1 23 Southend-on-Sea 9,350 7.8 25 1.4 23 Southwark 9,688 8.1 28 2.6 24 St Helens 11,067 8.5 28 0.5 12 Staffordshire 52,865 7.3 24 0.5 16 Stockport 14,579 7.3 24 1.3 19 Stockton on Tees 12,268 8.3 27 0.8 30 Stoke on Trent 14,218 9.2 29 1.1 17 Suffolk 45,197 6.6 21 0.5 14 Sunderland 18,782 8.9 29 1.2 17 Surrey 47,276 7.4 24 0.4 14 Sutton 10,738 6.8 22 0.3 11 Swindon 10,585 9.0 29 0.7 11 Tameside 14,690 8.1 27 1.2 20 The Wrekin 9,702 8.7 27 1.0 18 Thurrock 7,911 9.0 29 1.5 23 Torbay 7,371 9.3 28 0.7 12 Tower Hamlets 12,930 7.1 23 2.8 19 Trafford 13,728 7.3 24 0.7 24 Wakefield 19,107 8.2 27 0.7 11 Walsall 18,552 8.9 30 1.0 18 Waltham Forest 12,175 7.5 25 2.3 24 Wandsworth 8,437 8.2 28 1.7 24 Warrington 11,995 7.2 23 0.5 22 Warwickshire 28,151 7.6 25 0.7 18 West Sussex 35,128 7.4 24 0.6 15 Westminster, City of 6,842 7.7 28 3.2 32 Wigan 20,015 7.9 27 1.3 27 Wiltshire 23,445 7.3 23 0.6 14 Windsor & Maidenhead 8,626 6.5 23 0.4 12 Wirral 20,315 8.9 29 0.8 26 Wokingham 8,745 6.4 21 0.4 12 Wolverhampton 12,857 9.8 31 1.5 19 Worcestershire 35,068 7.4 24 0.7 16 York, City of 6,555 6.8 23 0.6 20 ENGLAND 2, 786, 943 7.9 26 1.1 20

 

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