Accredited official statistics announcement

Pupil absence in schools in England: 2019 to 2020

This release reports on pupil absence in primary and secondary schools in the 2019 to 2020 academic year.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 28 February 2020
• Last updated: 20 August 2020

• Proposed release: March 2021
• Cancellation date: 20 August 2020 11:30am

Statistics release cancelled

As the demand increases for statistics and data to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department for Education has had to change its data gathering and release practices, focussing efforts on priority analysis and statistics. Our statement of 26 March 2020 explains this further (/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#announcements and, in line with guidance from the Office for Statistics Regulation (https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/covid-19-and-the-regulation-of-statistics/), the decision has been made to cancel this publication. We will keep users updated of further changes via the Department for Education Statistics website.