41 percent of NYC students were chronically absent last school year
About 41 percent of New York City students were chronically absent, missing at least 18 days of last school year, according to city data released Friday.
The figures from the Mayor’s Management Report show that as the city required all students to return to class in person last school year for the first time since March 2020, hundreds of thousands of children still missed large stretches of instruction.
Last year’s chronic absenteeism rate was the highest the city has recorded in decades, according to figures from NYU’s Research Alliance, and also the highest rate during the pandemic.