A 2007 study of North Carolina schools, for example, found that a quarter of low - income middle schools had persistently high teacher absenteeism; among more - affluent middle schools, fewer than 1 in 12 had
the same high absenteeism rate.
Not exact matches
At about the
same time, Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Balfanz and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research were finding that chronic
absenteeism in middle and
high school was a leading indicator that students would drop out.
In New York City, school officials have implemented a variety of special programs designed to attack the
same problem — daily
absenteeism runs at about 23 percent of the district's
high - school students.