Attendance rate per Session

Term 1, 2013

83.00%

23169 / 27822 

Term 1 2012

83.5171 %

Term 1 2011

79.5%

275 Pupils

Gender

Number
of
pupils

There has never been a significant difference between attendance of boys and girls but an absence rate of 19% for boys compared to 15% for girls is getting close to significant and might warrant a closer look.

Female 

85%

12483 / 14660

141

Male 

81%

10686 / 13162

134

Ethnicity

Number
of
pupils

As only 6% of our pupils are non-Maori, this data is not of any significance.

Cook Isl Maori 

91%

792 / 866

9

Indian 

84%

311 / 369

3

NZ European 

90%

300 / 332

4

NZ Maori 

83%

21474 / 25875

256

Form

Number
of
pupils

Attendance always improves as pupils get older and peaks at year 6. (It begins to drop again in year 7 or 8)

There is nothing unusual in the trend except that our year 1 pupils have higher attendance than usual. Term 1 last year for example was only 74% (26% absent) for year 1 and in 2011 it was only 72% (28% absent)

Y1 

81%

1745 / 2142

32

Y2 

80%

4849 / 6048

63

Y3 

82%

4596 / 5601

54

Y4 

85%

3841 / 4523

40

Y5 

85%

3968 / 4663

41

Y6 

86%

4170 / 4845

45

Room

Number
of
pupils

There is no significant difference in attendance between classes. The differences that do show are related to the year level of that class.

The bi-lingual unit (te Korowai o te Aroha) continues to have slightly higher attendance levels. In this term 85.9% (14.1% absent) compared to non-bi-lingual of  82% (18% absent) While the senior class (Rangimarie) is much the same as the general senior classes, there is a higher attendance in their junior classes.

Manawanui 

86%

1491 / 1728

17

Rangimarie 

85%

2206 / 2596

21

Rm 1 

84%

1103 / 1310

17

Rm 3 

83%

1535 / 1846

18

Rm 4 

80%

1718 / 2145

18

Rm 5 

87%

1976 / 2262

18

Rm 6 

85%

1914 / 2249

19

Rm12 

87%

2636 / 3032

26

Rm14 

88%

2049 / 2331

19

Rm15 

86%

2550 / 2949

24

Tumanako 

87%

3176 / 3631

28

left 

47%

815 / 1743

50

Summary

An attendance rate of 83% for the first term is about normal for our school and this area. Term 1 2012 was much the same and term 1 of 2011 was a bit below this.

Term 1 is usually our best term as far as attendance goes. This is probably as much to do with the weather as anything else.

Initiatives such as breakfast club might have some effect. While the number attending breakfast club is not great (10 or 12 a day usually) those pupils have very high attendance.