{"id":692705,"date":"2026-05-25T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:53:12","slug":"more-students-missing-school-since-pandemic-says-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692705\/","title":{"rendered":"More Students Missing School Since Pandemic, says Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Classroom-School-Education-College-University-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"More Students Missing School Since Pandemic, says Government\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government has released information detailing how the rate of unexcused absences in the K-12 system has increased since the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>The numbers were released in <a href=\"https:\/\/atipp-search.gov.nl.ca\/public\/atipp\/requestdownload?id=25450\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Access to Information request <\/a>published on the provincial government\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>While unexcused absences have increased across all grade levels since 2020, the most notable increases involve junior high and high school students. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s particularly true when it comes to chronic absenteeism \u2013 or absences for 10 per cent or more of the school year. <\/p>\n<p>From September 2018 to the end of the 2020-2021 school year, the percentage of students in grades 10 to 12 who were deemed chronically absent was between 21 and 25 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>However, that spiked to 33 per cent in 2021-22 and remained in the 30 per cent range right up to the current school year. <\/p>\n<p>Absenteeism in grades 7-9 also increased. <\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic, junior high students who were absent without an excuse for 10 per cent or more of the school year was between 11 and 13 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Those numbers started to rise in the 2020-2021 school year, and spiked in 2021-2022 at more than 21 per cent, dropping slightly to 19 cent in the last school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The provincial government has released information detailing how the rate of unexcused absences in the K-12 system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-692705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}