Attendance

Consistent school attendance is associated with stronger academic outcomes, social-emotional development, and keeping students on track for high school graduation.

Attendance is also directly tied to school funding, as Texas is one of only a few states that ties school resources to daily attendance, not enrollment.

Attendance is measured by chronic absence rates (when a student misses 10% or more of the school year regardless of the reason) and average absence rates.

Topic

Attendance CTE

Demographics

Location

Location 1

Texas
Amarillo Central Texas Dallas/Fort Worth El Paso Houston Rio Grande Valley San Antonio
Alamo Community College Alvin Community College Amarillo College Angelina County Junior College Austin Community College Bee County College Blinn Junior College Borger Junior College Brazosport College Central Texas College Cisco Junior College Clarendon College College Of The Mainland Collin County Community College Dallas County Community College Del Mar College-Corpus Christi Junior College El Paso County Community College Galveston College Grayson County Junior College Hill College Houston Community College System Howard County Junior College Kilgore Junior College Laredo Community College Lee College Lone Star College System Mclennan Community College Midland Community College Navarro College North Central Texas College Northeast Texas Community College Odessa College Panola College Paris Junior College Ranger Junior College San Jacinto College South Plains College South Texas Community College Southwest Texas Junior College Tarrant County Junior College Temple Junior College Texarkana College Texas Southmost College The Victoria College Trinity Valley Community College Tyler Junior College Vernon Regional Junior College Weatherford College Western Texas College Wharton County Junior College
City Rural Suburb Town
Charter Schools Independent Town Major Suburban Major Urban Non-metropolitan Fast Growing Non-metropolitan Stable Other Central City Other Central City Suburban Rural
Abilene, TX Metro Area Alice, TX Micro Area Amarillo, TX Metro Area Andrews, TX Micro Area Athens, TX Micro Area Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metro Area Bay City, TX Micro Area Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro Area Beeville, TX Micro Area Big Spring, TX Micro Area Bonham, TX Micro Area Borger, TX Micro Area Brenham, TX Micro Area Brownsville-Harlingen, TX Metro Area Brownwood, TX Micro Area College Station-Bryan, TX Metro Area Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area Corsicana, TX Micro Area Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area Del Rio, TX Micro Area Dumas, TX Micro Area Eagle Pass, TX Metro Area El Campo, TX Micro Area El Paso, TX Metro Area Fredericksburg, TX Micro Area Gainesville, TX Micro Area Granbury, TX Micro Area Hereford, TX Micro Area Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area Huntsville, TX Micro Area Jacksonville, TX Micro Area Kerrville, TX Micro Area Killeen-Temple, TX Metro Area Kingsville, TX Micro Area Laredo, TX Metro Area Longview, TX Metro Area Lubbock, TX Metro Area Lufkin, TX Micro Area McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX Metro Area Midland, TX Metro Area Mineral Wells, TX Micro Area Mount Pleasant, TX Micro Area Nacogdoches, TX Micro Area Odessa, TX Metro Area Palestine, TX Micro Area Pampa, TX Micro Area Paris, TX Micro Area Plainview, TX Micro Area Port Lavaca, TX Micro Area Raymondville, TX Micro Area Rio Grande City-Roma, TX Micro Area San Angelo, TX Metro Area San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area Sherman-Denison, TX Metro Area Snyder, TX Micro Area Stephenville, TX Micro Area Sulphur Springs, TX Micro Area Sweetwater, TX Micro Area Texarkana, TX-AR Metro Area Town of Pecos, TX Micro Area Tyler, TX Metro Area Uvalde, TX Micro Area Vernon, TX Micro Area Victoria, TX Metro Area Waco, TX Metro Area Wichita Falls, TX Metro Area Zapata, TX Micro Area
Abilene-Sweetwater, TX CSA Amarillo-Borger, TX CSA Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville, TX CSA Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX CSA Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM CSA Houston-Pasadena, TX CSA Lubbock-Plainview, TX CSA McAllen-Edinburg, TX CSA Midland-Odessa-Andrews, TX CSA San Antonio-New Braunfels-Kerrville, TX CSA Tyler-Jacksonville, TX CSA Victoria-Port Lavaca, TX CSA
SBOE District 1 SBOE District 2 SBOE District 3 SBOE District 4 SBOE District 5 SBOE District 6 SBOE District 7 SBOE District 8 SBOE District 9 SBOE District 10 SBOE District 11 SBOE District 12 SBOE District 13 SBOE District 14 SBOE District 15
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State House District 1 State House District 2 State House District 3 State House District 4 State House District 5 State House District 6 State House District 7 State House District 8 State House District 9 State House District 10 State House District 11 State House District 12 State House District 13 State House District 14 State House District 15 State House District 16 State House District 17 State House District 18 State House District 19 State House District 20 State House District 21 State House District 22 State House District 23 State House District 24 State House District 25 State House District 26 State House District 27 State House District 28 State House District 29 State House District 30 State House District 31 State House District 32 State House District 33 State House District 34 State House District 35 State House District 36 State House District 37 State House District 38 State House District 39 State House District 40 State House District 41 State House District 42 State House District 43 State House District 44 State House District 45 State House District 46 State House District 47 State House District 48 State House District 49 State House District 50 State House District 51 State House District 52 State House District 53 State House District 54 State House District 55 State House District 56 State House District 57 State House District 58 State House District 59 State House District 60 State House District 61 State House District 62 State House District 63 State House District 64 State House District 65 State House District 66 State House District 67 State House District 68 State House District 69 State House District 70 State House District 71 State House District 72 State House District 73 State House District 74 State House District 75 State House District 76 State House District 77 State House District 78 State House District 79 State House District 80 State House District 81 State House District 82 State House District 83 State House District 84 State House District 85 State House District 86 State House District 87 State House District 88 State House District 89 State House District 90 State House District 91 State House District 92 State House District 93 State House District 94 State House District 95 State House District 96 State House District 97 State House District 98 State House District 99 State House District 100 State House District 101 State House District 102 State House District 103 State House District 104 State House District 105 State House District 106 State House District 107 State House District 108 State House District 109 State House District 110 State House District 111 State House District 112 State House District 113 State House District 114 State House District 115 State House District 116 State House District 117 State House District 118 State House District 119 State House District 120 State House District 121 State House District 122 State House District 123 State House District 124 State House District 125 State House District 126 State House District 127 State House District 128 State House District 129 State House District 130 State House District 131 State House District 132 State House District 133 State House District 134 State House District 135 State House District 136 State House District 137 State House District 138 State House District 139 State House District 140 State House District 141 State House District 142 State House District 143 State House District 144 State House District 145 State House District 146 State House District 147 State House District 148 State House District 149 State House District 150
Anderson County Andrews County Angelina County Aransas County Archer County Armstrong County Atascosa County Austin County Bailey County Bandera County Bastrop County Baylor County Bee County Bell County Bexar County Blanco County Borden County Bosque County Bowie County Brazoria County Brazos County Brewster County Briscoe County Brooks County Brown County Burleson County Burnet County Caldwell County Calhoun County Callahan County Cameron County Camp County Carson County Cass County Castro County Chambers County Cherokee County Childress County Clay County Cochran County Coke County Coleman County Collin County Collingsworth County Colorado County Comal County Comanche County Concho County Cooke County Coryell County Cottle County Crane County Crockett County Crosby County Culberson County Dallam County Dallas County Dawson County Deaf Smith County Delta County Denton County Dewitt County Dickens County Dimmit County Donley County Duval County Eastland County Ector County Edwards County Ellis County El Paso County Erath County Falls County Fannin County Fayette County Fisher County Floyd County Foard County Fort Bend County Franklin County Freestone County Frio County Gaines County Galveston County Garza County Gillespie County Glasscock County Goliad County Gonzales County Gray County Grayson County Gregg County Grimes County Guadalupe County Hale County Hall County Hamilton County Hansford County Hardeman County Hardin County Harris County Harrison County Hartley County Haskell County Hays County Hemphill County Henderson County Hidalgo County Hill County Hockley County Hood County Hopkins County Houston County Howard County Hudspeth County Hunt County Hutchinson County Irion County Jack County Jackson County Jasper County Jeff Davis County Jefferson County Jim Hogg County Jim Wells County Johnson County Jones County Karnes County Kaufman County Kendall County Kenedy County Kent County Kerr County Kimble County King County Kinney County Kleberg County Knox County Lamar County Lamb County Lampasas County La Salle County Lavaca County Lee County Leon County Liberty County Limestone County Lipscomb County Live Oak County Llano County Loving County Lubbock County Lynn County Madison County Marion County Martin County Mason County Matagorda County Maverick County Mcculloch County Mclennan County Mcmullen County Medina County Menard County Midland County Milam County Mills County Mitchell County Montague County Montgomery County Moore County Morris County Motley County Nacogdoches County Navarro County Newton County Nolan County Nueces County Ochiltree County Oldham County Orange County Palo Pinto County Panola County Parker County Parmer County Pecos County Polk County Potter County Presidio County Rains County Randall County Reagan County Real County Red River County Reeves County Refugio County Roberts County Robertson County Rockwall County Runnels County Rusk County Sabine County San Augustine County San Jacinto County San Patricio County San Saba County Schleicher County Scurry County Shackelford County Shelby County Sherman County Smith County Somervell County Starr County Stephens County Sterling County Stonewall County Sutton County Swisher County Tarrant County Taylor County Terrell County Terry County Throckmorton County Titus County Tom Green County Travis County Trinity County Tyler County Upshur County Upton County Uvalde County Val Verde County Van Zandt County Victoria County Walker County Waller County Ward County Washington County Webb County Wharton County Wheeler County Wichita County Wilbarger County Willacy County Williamson County Wilson County Winkler County Wise County Wood County Yoakum County Young County Zapata County Zavala County

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Texas
Amarillo Central Texas Dallas/Fort Worth El Paso Houston Rio Grande Valley San Antonio
Alamo Community College Alvin Community College Amarillo College Angelina County Junior College Austin Community College Bee County College Blinn Junior College Borger Junior College Brazosport College Central Texas College Cisco Junior College Clarendon College College Of The Mainland Collin County Community College Dallas County Community College Del Mar College-Corpus Christi Junior College El Paso County Community College Galveston College Grayson County Junior College Hill College Houston Community College System Howard County Junior College Kilgore Junior College Laredo Community College Lee College Lone Star College System Mclennan Community College Midland Community College Navarro College North Central Texas College Northeast Texas Community College Odessa College Panola College Paris Junior College Ranger Junior College San Jacinto College South Plains College South Texas Community College Southwest Texas Junior College Tarrant County Junior College Temple Junior College Texarkana College Texas Southmost College The Victoria College Trinity Valley Community College Tyler Junior College Vernon Regional Junior College Weatherford College Western Texas College Wharton County Junior College
City Rural Suburb Town
Charter Schools Independent Town Major Suburban Major Urban Non-metropolitan Fast Growing Non-metropolitan Stable Other Central City Other Central City Suburban Rural
Abilene, TX Metro Area Alice, TX Micro Area Amarillo, TX Metro Area Andrews, TX Micro Area Athens, TX Micro Area Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metro Area Bay City, TX Micro Area Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro Area Beeville, TX Micro Area Big Spring, TX Micro Area Bonham, TX Micro Area Borger, TX Micro Area Brenham, TX Micro Area Brownsville-Harlingen, TX Metro Area Brownwood, TX Micro Area College Station-Bryan, TX Metro Area Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area Corsicana, TX Micro Area Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area Del Rio, TX Micro Area Dumas, TX Micro Area Eagle Pass, TX Metro Area El Campo, TX Micro Area El Paso, TX Metro Area Fredericksburg, TX Micro Area Gainesville, TX Micro Area Granbury, TX Micro Area Hereford, TX Micro Area Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area Huntsville, TX Micro Area Jacksonville, TX Micro Area Kerrville, TX Micro Area Killeen-Temple, TX Metro Area Kingsville, TX Micro Area Laredo, TX Metro Area Longview, TX Metro Area Lubbock, TX Metro Area Lufkin, TX Micro Area McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX Metro Area Midland, TX Metro Area Mineral Wells, TX Micro Area Mount Pleasant, TX Micro Area Nacogdoches, TX Micro Area Odessa, TX Metro Area Palestine, TX Micro Area Pampa, TX Micro Area Paris, TX Micro Area Plainview, TX Micro Area Port Lavaca, TX Micro Area Raymondville, TX Micro Area Rio Grande City-Roma, TX Micro Area San Angelo, TX Metro Area San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area Sherman-Denison, TX Metro Area Snyder, TX Micro Area Stephenville, TX Micro Area Sulphur Springs, TX Micro Area Sweetwater, TX Micro Area Texarkana, TX-AR Metro Area Town of Pecos, TX Micro Area Tyler, TX Metro Area Uvalde, TX Micro Area Vernon, TX Micro Area Victoria, TX Metro Area Waco, TX Metro Area Wichita Falls, TX Metro Area Zapata, TX Micro Area
Abilene-Sweetwater, TX CSA Amarillo-Borger, TX CSA Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville, TX CSA Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX CSA Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM CSA Houston-Pasadena, TX CSA Lubbock-Plainview, TX CSA McAllen-Edinburg, TX CSA Midland-Odessa-Andrews, TX CSA San Antonio-New Braunfels-Kerrville, TX CSA Tyler-Jacksonville, TX CSA Victoria-Port Lavaca, TX CSA
SBOE District 1 SBOE District 2 SBOE District 3 SBOE District 4 SBOE District 5 SBOE District 6 SBOE District 7 SBOE District 8 SBOE District 9 SBOE District 10 SBOE District 11 SBOE District 12 SBOE District 13 SBOE District 14 SBOE District 15
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State Senate District 1 State Senate District 2 State Senate District 3 State Senate District 4 State Senate District 5 State Senate District 6 State Senate District 7 State Senate District 8 State Senate District 9 State Senate District 10 State Senate District 11 State Senate District 12 State Senate District 13 State Senate District 14 State Senate District 15 State Senate District 16 State Senate District 17 State Senate District 18 State Senate District 19 State Senate District 20 State Senate District 21 State Senate District 22 State Senate District 23 State Senate District 24 State Senate District 25 State Senate District 26 State Senate District 27 State Senate District 28 State Senate District 29 State Senate District 30 State Senate District 31
State House District 1 State House District 2 State House District 3 State House District 4 State House District 5 State House District 6 State House District 7 State House District 8 State House District 9 State House District 10 State House District 11 State House District 12 State House District 13 State House District 14 State House District 15 State House District 16 State House District 17 State House District 18 State House District 19 State House District 20 State House District 21 State House District 22 State House District 23 State House District 24 State House District 25 State House District 26 State House District 27 State House District 28 State House District 29 State House District 30 State House District 31 State House District 32 State House District 33 State House District 34 State House District 35 State House District 36 State House District 37 State House District 38 State House District 39 State House District 40 State House District 41 State House District 42 State House District 43 State House District 44 State House District 45 State House District 46 State House District 47 State House District 48 State House District 49 State House District 50 State House District 51 State House District 52 State House District 53 State House District 54 State House District 55 State House District 56 State House District 57 State House District 58 State House District 59 State House District 60 State House District 61 State House District 62 State House District 63 State House District 64 State House District 65 State House District 66 State House District 67 State House District 68 State House District 69 State House District 70 State House District 71 State House District 72 State House District 73 State House District 74 State House District 75 State House District 76 State House District 77 State House District 78 State House District 79 State House District 80 State House District 81 State House District 82 State House District 83 State House District 84 State House District 85 State House District 86 State House District 87 State House District 88 State House District 89 State House District 90 State House District 91 State House District 92 State House District 93 State House District 94 State House District 95 State House District 96 State House District 97 State House District 98 State House District 99 State House District 100 State House District 101 State House District 102 State House District 103 State House District 104 State House District 105 State House District 106 State House District 107 State House District 108 State House District 109 State House District 110 State House District 111 State House District 112 State House District 113 State House District 114 State House District 115 State House District 116 State House District 117 State House District 118 State House District 119 State House District 120 State House District 121 State House District 122 State House District 123 State House District 124 State House District 125 State House District 126 State House District 127 State House District 128 State House District 129 State House District 130 State House District 131 State House District 132 State House District 133 State House District 134 State House District 135 State House District 136 State House District 137 State House District 138 State House District 139 State House District 140 State House District 141 State House District 142 State House District 143 State House District 144 State House District 145 State House District 146 State House District 147 State House District 148 State House District 149 State House District 150
Anderson County Andrews County Angelina County Aransas County Archer County Armstrong County Atascosa County Austin County Bailey County Bandera County Bastrop County Baylor County Bee County Bell County Bexar County Blanco County Borden County Bosque County Bowie County Brazoria County Brazos County Brewster County Briscoe County Brooks County Brown County Burleson County Burnet County Caldwell County Calhoun County Callahan County Cameron County Camp County Carson County Cass County Castro County Chambers County Cherokee County Childress County Clay County Cochran County Coke County Coleman County Collin County Collingsworth County Colorado County Comal County Comanche County Concho County Cooke County Coryell County Cottle County Crane County Crockett County Crosby County Culberson County Dallam County Dallas County Dawson County Deaf Smith County Delta County Denton County Dewitt County Dickens County Dimmit County Donley County Duval County Eastland County Ector County Edwards County Ellis County El Paso County Erath County Falls County Fannin County Fayette County Fisher County Floyd County Foard County Fort Bend County Franklin County Freestone County Frio County Gaines County Galveston County Garza County Gillespie County Glasscock County Goliad County Gonzales County Gray County Grayson County Gregg County Grimes County Guadalupe County Hale County Hall County Hamilton County Hansford County Hardeman County Hardin County Harris County Harrison County Hartley County Haskell County Hays County Hemphill County Henderson County Hidalgo County Hill County Hockley County Hood County Hopkins County Houston County Howard County Hudspeth County Hunt County Hutchinson County Irion County Jack County Jackson County Jasper County Jeff Davis County Jefferson County Jim Hogg County Jim Wells County Johnson County Jones County Karnes County Kaufman County Kendall County Kenedy County Kent County Kerr County Kimble County King County Kinney County Kleberg County Knox County Lamar County Lamb County Lampasas County La Salle County Lavaca County Lee County Leon County Liberty County Limestone County Lipscomb County Live Oak County Llano County Loving County Lubbock County Lynn County Madison County Marion County Martin County Mason County Matagorda County Maverick County Mcculloch County Mclennan County Mcmullen County Medina County Menard County Midland County Milam County Mills County Mitchell County Montague County Montgomery County Moore County Morris County Motley County Nacogdoches County Navarro County Newton County Nolan County Nueces County Ochiltree County Oldham County Orange County Palo Pinto County Panola County Parker County Parmer County Pecos County Polk County Potter County Presidio County Rains County Randall County Reagan County Real County Red River County Reeves County Refugio County Roberts County Robertson County Rockwall County Runnels County Rusk County Sabine County San Augustine County San Jacinto County San Patricio County San Saba County Schleicher County Scurry County Shackelford County Shelby County Sherman County Smith County Somervell County Starr County Stephens County Sterling County Stonewall County Sutton County Swisher County Tarrant County Taylor County Terrell County Terry County Throckmorton County Titus County Tom Green County Travis County Trinity County Tyler County Upshur County Upton County Uvalde County Val Verde County Van Zandt County Victoria County Walker County Waller County Ward County Washington County Webb County Wharton County Wheeler County Wichita County Wilbarger County Willacy County Williamson County Wilson County Winkler County Wise County Wood County Yoakum County Young County Zapata County Zavala County

Chronic Absence Rate
All Students, 2025, State House District 130 and State House District 137
100% - 80% - 60% - 40% - 20% - 0% - 13% 14% All Students
State House District 130 State House District 137

Source: E3 Alliance analysis of data from the Texas Education Agency at The University of Texas at Austin Education Research Center

Chronic Absence Rate
All Students, 2015-2025, State House District 130 and State House District 137
100% - 80% - 60% - 40% - 20% - 0% - 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 All Students
―   State House District 130 ― ―  State House District 137
All Students

Source: E3 Alliance analysis of data from the Texas Education Agency at The University of Texas at Austin Education Research Center

Chronic Absence Rate
All Students, 2025, State House District 130 and State House District 137
100% - 80% - 60% - 40% - 20% - 0% - 13% 27% 60% 14% 19% 67% All Students
State House District 130 State House District 137

Source: E3 Alliance analysis of data from the Texas Education Agency at The University of Texas at Austin Education Research Center

Chronic Absence Rate
All Students, 2015-2025, State House District 130 and State House District 137
100% - 80% - 60% - 40% - 20% - 0% - 6.1% 20% 74% 5.6% 19% 75% 6.0% 19% 75% 6.8% 20% 73% 6.8% 20% 73% 3.5% 11% 85% 9.6% 15% 76% 18% 29% 53% 14% 29% 58% 13% 27% 59% 13% 27% 60% 6.9% 14% 79% 7.3% 14% 79% 6.9% 14% 79% 7.7% 13% 79% 9.3% 15% 76% 6.2% 12% 82% 14% 9.7% 76% 19% 19% 61% 17% 20% 63% 15% 18% 66% 14% 19% 67% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
State House District 130 State House District 137

Source: E3 Alliance analysis of data from the Texas Education Agency at The University of Texas at Austin Education Research Center

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