Pupil Absence in Maintained PRIMARY Schools in England in the 2000/2001 School Year

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Pupil Absence in Maintained PRIMARY Schools in England in the 2000/2001 School Year

Local Education Authority	Number of day pupils of compulsory school age	Authorised absence		Unauthorised absence
Local Education Authority	Number of day pupils of compulsory school age	% of half days missed	average number of half days missed per absent pupil	% of half days missed	average number of half days missed per absent pupil
Barking and Dagenham	15,193	6.1	20	1.4	11
Barnet	22,111	5.6	19	0.6	9
Barnsley	17,667	5.8	19	0.8	10
Bath and North East Somerset	11,414	4.9	16	0.3	7
Bedfordshire	20,879	5.3	17	0.2	6
Bexley	18,236	6.0	19	0.3	9
Birmingham	87,065	6.4	20	0.7	10
Blackburn with Darwen	13,300	5.9	19	0.5	9
Blackpool	11,230	6.0	19	0.8	10
Bolton	22,302	5.3	17	0.3	10
Bournemouth	9,898	5.5	18	0.3	5
Bracknell Forest	8,151	5.3	16	0.2	6
Bradford	42,009	5.5	17	0.9	9
Brent	18,334	6.0	20	0.6	9
Brighton and Hove	15,545	6.6	21	0.6	8
Bristol, City of	27,481	6.3	20	1.0	12
Bromley	22,370	5.2	17	0.4	9
Buckinghamshire	36,076	4.8	16	0.2	9
Bury	14,594	5.0	17	0.4	10
Calderdale	16,728	5.3	18	0.3	8
Cambridgeshire	39,818	5.4	17	0.4	8
Camden	9,331	6.9	22	1.3	10
Cheshire	52,277	4.6	16	0.4	10
Cornwall	36,502	5.8	19	0.3	8
Coventry	24,345	6.4	20	0.3	9
Croydon	26,715	6.1	19	0.7	11
Cumbria FM	36,504	5.5	18	0.2	9
Darlington	8,039	7.2	23	0.2	11
Derby City	18,824	5.6	18	0.7	10
Derbyshire	56,883	5.0	17	0.4	8
Devon FM	50,838	5.6	18	0.3	7
Doncaster	24,297	6.3	20	0.5	10
Dorset	21,971	5.2	17	0.3	6
Dudley	25,070	5.8	19	0.4	9
Durham FM	37,801	6.1	20	0.1	8
Ealing	21,543	6.4	20	0.3	6
East Riding of Yorkshire	24,484	5.1	16	0.2	7
East Sussex	34,776	5.7	18	0.5	8
Enfield	22,812	5.2	18	1.2	12
Essex	98,594	5.6	18	0.4	8
Gateshead	14,567	5.6	18	0.4	8
Gloucestershire	41,541	5.0	16	0.2	8
Greenwich	17,494	5.7	19	1.3	11
Hackney	14,780	6.5	21	1.6	12
Halton	10,557	5.5	19	0.8	12
Hammersmith and Fulham	7,740	6.2	22	0.9	12
Hampshire	93,013	5.0	16	0.4	7
Haringey	17,213	5.8	19	1.7	13
Harrow	17,321	6.0	19	0.4	8
Hartlepool	8,329	5.5	18	0.8	11
Havering	18,007	6.1	19	0.2	6
Herefordshire	12,992	5.6	18	0.3	11
Hertfordshire	79,535	5.0	16	0.3	9
Hillingdon	19,192	6.1	19	0.8	8
Hounslow	15,437	6.2	19	1.1	11
Isle of Wight	6,424	6.2	19	0.2	7
Isles of Scilly	119	8.0	25	0.0	3
Islington	13,252	6.0	20	1.1	10
Kensington and Chelsea	5,766	6.6	21	1.1	12
Kent	102,142	5.5	18	0.4	9
Kingston upon Hull, City of	21,727	6.0	19	0.8	9
Kingston upon Thames	9,625	5.5	18	0.3	9
Kirklees	31,231	5.0	17	0.6	8
Knowsley	13,901	6.4	21	0.8	10
Lambeth	16,057	5.8	19	1.2	11
Lancashire	89,285	5.0	17	0.3	10
Leeds	55,134	5.7	18	0.6	9
Leicester City	24,150	6.6	21	0.7	10
Leicestershire	45,637	5.2	17	0.2	8
Lewisham	19,812	5.6	18	1.7	12
Lincolnshire	49,036	5.0	17	0.3	9
Liverpool	35,498	6.6	22	0.6	11
London, City of	183	5.7	18	0.9	8
Luton	16,499	6.5	20	0.6	8
Manchester	35,215	6.7	21	1.0	13
Medway	22,252	5.6	18	0.4	7
Merton	11,857	6.7	21	0.5	8
Middlesbrough	12,539	6.1	20	0.5	9
Milton Keynes	20,180	5.9	19	0.3	8
Newcastle upon Tyne	16,992	6.1	20	0.5	9
Newham	25,540	5.5	17	1.7	10
Norfolk	59,823	5.5	18	0.5	8
North East Lincolnshire	13,956	5.7	18	0.3	9
North Lincolnshire	12,611	5.4	17	0.2	6
North Somerset	13,415	5.4	18	0.3	9
North Tyneside	13,229	5.3	18	0.1	9
North Yorkshire FM	42,470	4.8	16	0.2	8
Northamptonshire	46,217	5.1	17	0.5	10
Northumberland	15,304	5.5	18	0.2	11
Nottingham City	22,760	6.1	20	0.8	10
Nottinghamshire	56,486	5.3	18	0.4	9
Oldham	19,949	6.1	20	0.5	10
Oxfordshire	40,550	5.4	17	0.3	8
Peterborough City	14,419	5.7	18	0.6	7
Plymouth	18,737	5.5	17	0.4	7
Poole	10,296	5.6	18	0.5	7
Portsmouth	13,909	5.6	18	0.8	9
Reading	9,495	5.6	18	0.8	10
Redbridge	19,877	5.7	18	0.9	9
Redcar and Cleveland	12,280	5.7	19	0.3	8
Richmond upon Thames	10,387	5.5	18	0.3	11
Rochdale	17,805	5.9	21	0.5	11
Rotherham	21,700	5.8	19	0.6	10
Rutland	2,199	4.5	15	0.1	9
Salford	18,464	6.1	21	0.6	10
Sandwell	25,144	7.1	22	0.5	10
Sefton	22,031	5.8	19	0.2	9
Sheffield	38,900	5.9	19	0.9	11
Shropshire	20,277	5.6	18	0.1	6
Slough	9,583	6.2	20	0.8	10
Solihull	18,016	5.0	16	0.3	7
Somerset	34,501	5.6	18	0.3	8
South Gloucestershire	20,944	5.4	17	0.3	7
South Tyneside	11,846	6.0	20	0.2	10
Southampton	15,846	6.6	21	0.9	10
Southend-on-Sea	12,735	5.9	19	0.6	9
Southwark	18,976	5.1	18	1.7	12
St Helens	14,523	6.1	20	0.3	11
Staffordshire	58,832	5.3	17	0.2	8
Stockport	22,144	5.1	17	0.4	7
Stockton on Tees	15,799	5.9	19	0.2	8
Stoke on Trent	18,737	5.7	18	0.6	9
Suffolk	41,317	5.1	17	0.2	8
Sunderland	22,981	6.1	20	0.1	11
Surrey	69,046	5.3	17	0.3	8
Sutton	12,630	5.4	17	0.4	8
Swindon	15,534	5.3	17	0.2	6
Tameside	18,115	5.8	20	0.2	7
Telford and Wrekin	13,365	5.6	17	0.4	7
Thurrock	12,049	6.3	20	0.7	10
Torbay	9,064	5.9	18	0.4	7
Tower Hamlets	17,593	6.3	20	1.5	8
Trafford	15,892	5.1	17	0.2	9
Wakefield	26,277	5.6	19	0.5	9
Walsall	22,045	6.7	21	0.5	8
Waltham Forest	18,726	6.1	20	0.7	9
Wandsworth	14,264	6.4	20	0.6	9
Warrington	16,352	4.7	17	0.3	9
Warwickshire	37,320	5.2	17	0.2	8
West Berkshire	11,320	5.0	16	0.3	7
West Sussex	54,907	5.8	18	0.3	7
Westminster, City of	8,445	6.6	20	0.9	8
Wigan	25,031	5.6	19	0.3	11
Wiltshire	32,551	4.8	15	0.3	7
Windsor & Maidenhead	7,833	4.9	16	0.3	9
Wirral	25,386	5.8	19	0.4	11
Wokingham	11,921	4.5	15	0.3	6
Wolverhampton	20,540	6.4	21	0.6	12
Worcestershire	33,386	5.4	18	0.3	9
York, City of	12,530	4.5	15	0.4	9
ENGLAND	3,741,370	5.6	18	0.5	9


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