{"id":497325,"date":"2026-10-15T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497325\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:34:07","slug":"new-education-data-shows-small-gains-but-san-francisco-absenteeism-is-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497325\/","title":{"rendered":"New education data shows small gains, but San Francisco absenteeism is rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

The California Department of Education released a bunch of student data from the 2025-26 school year today, including math and English scores, graduation and dropout data, and chronic absenteeism numbers.<\/p>\n

The state is celebrating<\/a> minor gains in reading, math, and science compared to last year. English scores rose half a percentage point. Math rose one point.<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, reading scores are higher than the state average, and English language learners have made real strides.<\/p>\n

But the news isn\u2019t as good in other areas. Statewide, 18% of students are chronically absent<\/a>, meaning they missed at least 18 school days. And that rate is going down. In San Francisco, 24% of students are chronically absent<\/a>, and the rate is going up.<\/p>\n

The average student in San Francisco missed 17 days of school last year<\/a>, just one day short of being considered chronically absent.<\/p>\n

This is the first year the state has released Smarter Balanced Assessment scores alongside its \u201cdashboard,\u201d California\u2019s tool for holding districts accountable<\/a>. It\u2019s also the first time science scores appear on the dashboard.<\/p>\n

KALW reached out to San Francisco Unified School District for comment, but didn\u2019t hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Department of Education released a bunch of student data from the 2025-26 school year today, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-497325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}