A daily attendance report is a record of all students absent. Some schools prefer using daily attendance reports that reflect particular dates certain students are absent. Others may use monthly attendance reports depending on their attendance policy. Both of them are significant in generating information regarding how students attend school. In addition, as a school administrator, you can identify students who are consistently absent and correct them accordingly. The state can also accumulate attendance reports for a full school year to plan on the educational support programs for the following year.
Attendance rate is the average percentage of school attendance in a particular year. The Department of Education uses attendance reports received from schools in each state to compute attendance rates. They give information on how students attend schools in each state. If a school has a low attendance rate, meaning it's below average, it implies that the school faces a challenge in getting students to attend school regularly.
A dropout report gives information regarding students who have withdrawn from a school for reasons other than having died, enrolling in another school or being on suspension and therefore failing to graduate. A dropout report is useful in providing one aspect of attendance information for a school. Dropout data are often collected by the school principals and then handed to the state at the end of a given school year.
Student mobility reports are records of students who have either enrolled in a school as new students or transferred to other schools for reasons other than the fact that they have been promoted to the next grade level. These reports also provide a means of obtaining information on school attendance, since they are used by the school district to calculate mobility rates and the number of students who have transferred. They can therefore be used to justify why a school performs poorly, since students who consistently transfer often present attendance challenges to schools since it's difficult to teach them consistent curriculum.
Student enrollment reports are records of students who have joined a new school or other learning institutions in a specific year. The information in enrollment reports can help determine a school's performance. Schools with high enrollment have high attendances rates. Therefore, they typically perform better than schools with low enrollment. A student enrollment report may also give the number of dually enrolled students, or students who attend more than one school.