The school attendance , as we have discussed in other columns , is key for those students develop the knowledge , skills and attitudes that are expected to learn during their education. It also contributes to their socio-emotional development and promotes fundamental habits for the future life of children and young people, such as responsibility. The attendance of the students on the other hand is linked to the school subsidy , the state provides resources to the schools by attended day, making variable the main source of income of the establishments.

This is the double impact of this indicator , both in terms of learning and resources for the school. This is why it is important for the school to understand how the assistance behaves during the year in order to carry out better management. In this opportunity, we studied the data of Kimche (30,000 students in 42 schools with public funding) to give you an overview of the impact of the days of the week on student attendance .

With an average attendance of 90.5% in the schools of Kimche (considered "normal" by the quality agency), we find that in the decomposition it is Friday the day that students attend least with 89% .

After identifying the most critical day, we went to study how the attendance of Friday is composed according to different variables, we will start with type of education. From the analysis it is found that both pre-school and professional technical education are those that have the most absence with 87% and 86% respectively.

When we double-click on the most critical case for children, we found that on Friday the first media were the most needed, with 88% average attendance , already considered "repeated non-attendance" by the quality agency.

Assistance on Fridays for courses for TP media niños

We now return to Friday and break it down by other variables, for example by socioeconomic level, according to the SEP category, priority students, preferred and not receiving SEP subsidy. What happens is counterintuitive, usually tends to think that the category assigned by the SEP impacts on school attendance and the truth is that compared to the other groups it is not, both priority and preferential have similar assistance on Fridays .

Another interesting comparison is by gender, distinguishing attendance on Fridays between men and women. The reality is that girls are the ones who come on Fridays compared to men , surpassing them in 1 pt. In any case the attendance of both Fridays is under 90% which is not considered within the acceptable levels.

Finally, we are going to decompose according to the general average section. The students are grouped with average 6 to 7, 5 to 6, 4 to 5, etc. and intersect with attendance percentages on Fridays. In this case we can observe a clear relationship between the general average and attendance, while a student has a better performance, the data shows that he attends school more on Fridays .

These are some keys to face the phenomenon of school attendance, the important thing is always to start with the general data and decompose them until you reach the cause of the indicator. From then on what remains are the remedial, the school must take actions in this identified group first interpreting the data with qualitative information collected in the field and then designing improvements to increase the indicator over time.