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| Table 227.52. | Percentage distribution of 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-graders, by number of days absent from school in the last month and school locale: 2015 and 2017 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade and school locale | All students | Number of days absent from school in the last month | ||||||||
| 0 days | 1 to 2 days | 3 to 4 days | 5 or more days | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Grade 4 (2017) | 215 | |||||||||
| Total | 100.0 | (†) | 44.5 | (0.21) | 32.4 | (0.22) | 13.3 | (0.14) | 9.7 | (0.13) |
| City | 100.0 | (†) | 44.4 | (0.45) | 31.3 | (0.41) | 13.6 | (0.25) | 10.7 | (0.22) |
| Large | 100.0 | (†) | 43.5 | (0.60) | 31.7 | (0.59) | 13.8 | (0.37) | 10.9 | (0.26) |
| Midsize | 100.0 | (†) | 45.2 | (1.30) | 31.3 | (0.85) | 13.1 | (0.68) | 10.4 | (0.69) |
| Small | 100.0 | (†) | 45.4 | (1.31) | 30.5 | (0.87) | 13.8 | (0.51) | 10.3 | (0.69) |
| Suburban | 100.0 | (†) | 45.8 | (0.37) | 32.1 | (0.39) | 12.9 | (0.21) | 9.2 | (0.20) |
| Large | 100.0 | (†) | 46.3 | (0.43) | 31.6 | (0.40) | 13.0 | (0.22) | 9.0 | (0.22) |
| Midsize | 100.0 | (†) | 42.0 | (1.43) | 35.4 | (1.30) | 13.0 | (0.69) | 9.5 | (0.80) |
| Small | 100.0 | (†) | 44.2 | (2.82) | 32.9 | (2.75) | 11.5 | (0.81) | 11.3 | (1.17) |
| Town | 100.0 | (†) | 42.1 | (0.82) | 33.5 | (0.68) | 13.9 | (0.47) | 10.5 | (0.51) |
| Fringe | 100.0 | (†) | 42.1 | (1.60) | 34.8 | (1.18) | 13.6 | (1.03) | 9.4 | (0.98) |
| Distant | 100.0 | (†) | 42.3 | (1.10) | 32.6 | (0.98) | 14.2 | (0.73) | 11.0 | (0.89) |
| Remote | 100.0 | (†) | 41.9 | (1.68) | 33.7 | (1.44) | 13.8 | (0.76) | 10.6 | (0.58) |
| Rural | 100.0 | (†) | 43.3 | (0.48) | 34.3 | (0.51) | 13.4 | (0.38) | 8.9 | (0.32) |
| Fringe | 100.0 | (†) | 44.1 | (0.68) | 34.6 | (0.66) | 12.9 | (0.57) | 8.4 | (0.37) |
| Distant | 100.0 | (†) | 43.1 | (0.78) | 33.9 | (0.85) | 13.7 | (0.53) | 9.4 | (0.57) |
| Remote | 100.0 | (†) | 39.2 | (1.28) | 34.3 | (1.33) | 15.6 | (0.90) | 11.0 | (0.50) |
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| Grade 8 (2017) | --- | |||||||||
| Total | 100.0 | (†) | 41.4 | (0.25) | 38.3 | (0.24) | 13.9 | (0.15) | 6.4 | (0.12) |
| City | 100.0 | (†) | 41.4 | (0.50) | 37.6 | (0.51) | 14.2 | (0.21) | 6.9 | (0.16) |
| Large | 100.0 | (†) | 42.6 | (0.62) | 36.1 | (0.59) | 14.5 | (0.32) | 6.8 | (0.22) |
| Midsize | 100.0 | (†) | 40.4 | (1.19) | 39.6 | (1.34) | 13.6 | (0.61) | 6.5 | (0.55) |
| Small | 100.0 | (†) | 39.6 | (1.02) | 39.1 | (0.97) | 14.0 | (0.67) | 7.3 | (0.33) |
| Suburban | 100.0 | (†) | 42.9 | (0.42) | 38.1 | (0.37) | 12.9 | (0.27) | 6.1 | (0.20) |
| Large | 100.0 | (†) | 43.2 | (0.47) | 38.1 | (0.42) | 12.7 | (0.30) | 6.0 | (0.20) |
| Midsize | 100.0 | (†) | 40.2 | (1.82) | 38.4 | (1.37) | 14.2 | (0.89) | 7.1 | (0.60) |
| Small | 100.0 | (†) | 42.5 | (2.38) | 36.6 | (2.05) | 14.9 | (1.02) | 5.9 | (0.93) |
| Town | 100.0 | (†) | 39.3 | (0.78) | 38.4 | (0.55) | 15.2 | (0.54) | 7.1 | (0.34) |
| Fringe | 100.0 | (†) | 41.9 | (1.70) | 37.5 | (1.37) | 13.5 | (0.75) | 7.1 | (0.48) |
| Distant | 100.0 | (†) | 38.5 | (1.07) | 38.8 | (0.86) | 15.4 | (0.68) | 7.2 | (0.59) |
| Remote | 100.0 | (†) | 38.5 | (1.59) | 38.4 | (1.03) | 16.3 | (1.29) | 6.8 | (0.59) |
| Rural | 100.0 | (†) | 39.1 | (0.54) | 40.1 | (0.50) | 14.6 | (0.49) | 6.2 | (0.27) |
| Fringe | 100.0 | (†) | 39.4 | (0.60) | 39.7 | (0.51) | 14.5 | (0.47) | 6.4 | (0.37) |
| Distant | 100.0 | (†) | 39.0 | (0.81) | 40.3 | (0.92) | 15.0 | (0.97) | 5.7 | (0.40) |
| Remote | 100.0 | (†) | 37.6 | (1.79) | 41.7 | (2.19) | 14.0 | (1.11) | 6.6 | (0.90) |
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| Grade 12 (2015)1 | --- | |||||||||
| Total | 100.0 | (†) | 35.9 | (0.56) | 41.1 | (0.48) | 15.5 | (0.35) | 7.5 | (0.30) |
| City | 100.0 | (†) | 34.7 | (1.02) | 38.8 | (0.81) | 17.3 | (0.61) | 9.2 | (0.50) |
| Suburban | 100.0 | (†) | 37.7 | (1.01) | 41.4 | (0.85) | 14.1 | (0.53) | 6.8 | (0.45) |
| Town | 100.0 | (†) | 33.8 | (1.22) | 42.6 | (1.27) | 16.5 | (0.93) | 7.1 | (0.68) |
| Rural | 100.0 | (†) | 35.4 | (1.43) | 43.0 | (1.14) | 15.0 | (0.85) | 6.6 | (0.55) |
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||||
| 1 Results for 2015 are shown because 12th-graders were not assessed in 2017. More detailed breakouts of school locale are not available at grade 12. | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Includes public, private, Bureau of Indian Education, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools. Includes students tested with accommodations (9 to 12 percent of all students, depending on grade); excludes only those students with disabilities and English language learners who were unable to be tested even with accommodations (2 percent of all students at all grades). Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2015 and 2017 Reading Assessments, retrieved April 12, 2019, from the Main NAEP Data Explorer (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/). (This table was prepared April 2019.) |