Post-pandemic students are more likely to have been chronically absent one or more years, as well as repeatedly, compared to pre-pandemic students
Source: Authors’ calculations using student-level attendance data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Note: Bars depict the percentage of students who were chronically absent in 0, 1, 2, or all 3 years over a three-year period from 2016-17 through 2018-19 (top) or 2020-21 through 2022-23 (bottom). For additional details, see: Swiderski, T., Fuller, S. C., & Bastian, K. C. (2024). "The persistence of post-pandemic chronic absenteeism."
