{"id":204916,"date":"2026-04-15T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204916"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:31:37","slug":"statewide-attendance-dashboard-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/statewide-attendance-dashboard-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide attendance dashboard launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS — Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen D. Dackin today announced the launch of Ohio\u2019s new Statewide Attendance Dashboard, a public tool designed to provide fast, transparent, and easy-to-use attendance data to help schools, families, and communities reduce chronic absenteeism and keep more students in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dashboard will be updated weekly and will allow users to track statewide attendance trends and view chronic absenteeism rates by district, school building, and grade level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery child in Ohio deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential, and that starts with being in school,\u201d Governor DeWine said. \u201cThis dashboard is a tool for the entire community \u2013 for parents, educators, local leaders, and neighbors \u2013 to start a conversation and work together to help students show up, stay engaged, and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen D. Dackin announced the launch of Ohio\u2019s new Statewide Attendance Dashboard. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The dashboard displays a trend line showing the percentage of students who are on track to be chronically absent over the course of the school year. Users can hover over each week to see the chronic absenteeism rate at that point in time. The dashboard is updated weekly using the most recent data available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to statewide data, users can search for individual districts and school buildings and view attendance data down to the grade level. The tool also allows users to compare school districts and other cohorts to see how their attendance trends compare over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users can also view the percentage of students in each of the following attendance categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Satisfactory (absent less than 5 percent of hours)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • At-Risk (absent between 5\u201310 percent of hours)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Moderate Chronic Absence (absent between 10\u201320 percent of hours)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Severe Chronic Absence (absent more than 20 percent of hours)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cThis is a major step forward in how we track and respond to attendance issues in Ohio,\u201d Dackin said. \u201cTo our knowledge, Ohio is only the second state in the country to develop an attendance dashboard that provides weekly updates. For the first time, schools and communities in Ohio will have access to weekly attendance information that can help them spot trends, identify challenges early, and respond with the right supports before students fall behind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

    In Ohio, a student is considered chronically absent when they miss at least 10 percent of the minimum number of hours required in the school year for any reason \u2013 including excused absences. Students only need to miss the equivalent of two to three days per month to be on track to be chronically absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By the end of the school year, this equates to missing nearly a full month of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The consequences of missing school are significant. Studies show that students with good attendance are three times more likely to be proficient readers, nearly four times more likely to be proficient in math, and almost 12 times more likely to graduate on time than students who are chronically absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    During his recent State of the State Address, Governor DeWine highlighted that more than 25 percent of Ohio students were chronically absent last year statewide. In the state\u2019s major urban districts, nearly half of students were chronically absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While the Statewide Attendance Dashboard represents a major milestone for transparency and accountability, Director Dackin noted that some districts and community schools are not yet represented in the tool. Many of those schools are actively working to update their data systems \u2013 including coordination with third-party vendors \u2013 so that they can provide attendance data in the correct format to populate within the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Additional schools and districts are expected to be added in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cWe hope \u2013 and we expect \u2013 that every school and district in Ohio will do the work to get their data on the dashboard,\u201d DeWine said. \u201cThe more complete this information is, the more powerful this tool becomes. This is a community problem, and it\u2019s going to take a community response. This dashboard gives us a way to see the challenge clearly and act faster to help make sure students are in school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS — Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen D. Dackin today announced the launch of Ohio\u2019s new Statewide Attendance Dashboard, a public tool designed to provide fast, transparent, and easy-to-use attendance data to help schools, families, and communities reduce chronic absenteeism and keep more students in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 05:16:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204923,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204916\/revisions\/204923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}