It’s time for an attendance data check in! Improving student attendance is a 2025 priority and part of the MoGC School Annual Improvement Plan. The Diocesan student attendance goal is 90% -  90% of students attending school for 90% of the time. When students attend for 90% of the time, they are attending for the equivalent of four days each week!

Our SAIP goal is: By the end of 2025 the number of students with a minimum attendance rate of 90% will improve from 71% to 80%.

How are we tracking? We are currently sitting at 81.4% of our students attending school for 90% of the time. This is slightly up from 81.1% in Term 2. We have a lot to celebrate with this data: we are on track to meeting our school-wide goal and our 2025 attendance is consistently higher than it was in 2024.

Families with students currently below 90% for Term 3 will receive communication next week. The purpose of this email is to raise family awareness of student attendance level.

Our Term 3 target was to decrease our Unexplained Absence data. This requires families to notify the school via MyCE app, email or phone call of their child’s absence. Notifying the school will also remove the automated text message received when a student absence is unexplained.

Unfortunately, we have moved from 9.1% of absences being unexplained to 15.2%. The MyCE app makes reporting student absences very easy and convenient for families. Hopefully we’ll see this data decrease in Term 4.