The Indiana Department of Education presented the state’s most recent chronic absenteeism data and unveiled a new Attendance Insights dashboard to the Indiana State Board of Education.

The data shows student attendance is improving, with chronic absenteeism improving for the second consecutive year.

Overall, Indiana’s chronic absenteeism rate for the 2023-24 school year was 17.8%, meaning nearly one in five students missed at least 10% of school days or about three and a half weeks.

This is an improvement of 1.4 percentage points from the previous school year and is more than 3 percentage points better than the post-pandemic high of 21.1%.