Greetings, CLN 9 Leaders,
We're excited to share our first CLN 9 Attendance Leaderboard (attached). Each month, it will show how every school and program in our network is doing on chronic absence, the share of students attending less than 90% of the days they are enrolled. Lower is better.
How the leaderboard works:
• Two leagues: High schools are ranked together, and our programs are ranked together, so everyone is compared with sites that serve similar students.
• Rank: Each school is ranked by its October chronic absence rate.
• Arrows: The arrow next to each rate shows the change since September. A downward arrow means fewer students are chronically absent.
• Shout-outs: Each month we will recognize the top school in each league and every school that moved in the right direction.
Where we stand: CLN 9 is at 56.0% chronic absence in October, up from 52.4% in September. OAA has set our network goal at 51% by June 2027. That means about 268 students need to get back above 90% attendance.
The good news is that the path is clear. Every school has students attending 80 to 89% of days who are very close to the line. I will be sharing your school's list, sorted so the students closest to 90% are at the top, along with the number of perfect days each student needs. Starting with those students, assigning an adult to each one, and celebrating every return is how we will move the board together.
This is meant to be healthy competition. Every school's progress moves all of CLN 9 closer to our goal, and I look forward to celebrating your wins. Our next leaderboard will come out in November.
Please reach out if you have questions or would like to talk through your school's data.