This report examines student attendance during in-person learning (September 2019 through February 2020) and compares it to student attendance during digital learning (September 2020 through February 2021) to answer the following questions:

  1. What were the overall attendance trends for students from September through February during the 2020-21 school year, and how do they compare to the trends in attendance from the same period the previous year (2019-20)?
  2. What were the school-level trends in student attendance from September through February of the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years? Are there schools that had better student attendance than others? What characteristics are associated with these schools?

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