Every School Day Counts: The Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Attendance Data

NCES 2009-804 February 2009

Appendix A: Attendance Codes by Reasons for Student Absences

The chart on the following pages presents a crosswalk of the taxonomy and reasons for student absences provided by state statutes and Forum members. The information is not exhaustive, and there may be additional examples not presented in the chart.

• Present
• Absent

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PRESENT S: State Statute or report     D: District report
	1A	1B	1C	1D	1E
STATES	In school, regular instructional program	Nontraditional school setting, regular instructional program	Disciplinary action, receiving instruction	Out of school, regular instructional program activity	Out of school, school-approved extracurricular or cocurricular activity
Alabama		S
Alaska		S	S
American Samoa
Arizona	S	S,D	S	D
Arkansas	S				S
California
Colorado		S	S	S
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida		S
Georgia
Guam
Hawaii		S
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana					S
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky		S			S
Louisiana
Maine					S
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan		S,D	D	D	D
Minnesota			D		D
Mississippi			S	S	S
Missouri
Montana			S
Nebraska
Nevada		S
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma		S		S
Oregon
Pennsylvania	S			S	S
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee		S
Texas
Utah					S
Vermont
Virgin Islands
Virginia	S				S
Washington	D		D
West Virginia		S	S	S	S
Wisconsin	S	S	S	S
Wyoming

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