This research brief focuses Chronic Absenteeism in Utah public schools. It reports:
- The students who are most likely to be chronically absent
- A demographic profile of chronically absent students
- Patterns in chronic absenteeism over time
- Relationships between chronic absenteeism and lower standardized test scores
- Relationships between chronic absenteeism and dropping out
- The extent to which grade point average (GPA) mediates the relationship between chronic absenteeism and dropping out.