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South Jersey's Attendance Gap With the North Has Nearly Doubled Since the Pandemic
Cumberland County sits at the bottom of New Jersey's attendance rankings. Its school districts average 18.8% chronic absenteeism in 2023-24, meaning roughly one in five students misses 18 or more scho...
Newark Cut Chronic Absenteeism by More Than Half
In 2018-19, more than one in four Newark students was chronically absent. The district's rate, 26.8%, was 16.2 percentage points above the state average, worse than all but a handful of New Jersey's u...
Paterson's Black Students Trail Every Group in Attendance Recovery
At Paterson's School 6, more than half of all students were chronically absent in 2023-24. A reporting investigation found that the school, along with several neighbors, had not filed a corrective act...