Equity
80,000 Low-Income Students Are Missing School
Nearly 30% of Tennessee's economically disadvantaged students are chronically absent, and the poverty gap in attendance is wider now than before the pandemic spike.
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District Spotlight
Tennessee's Billion-Dollar Turnaround Closes at 53.7% Absent
The Achievement School District ends after a decade with the state's worst chronic absenteeism rate, 85% enrollment loss, and research showing no long-term gains.
District Spotlight
Nearly One in Three Memphis Students Is Chronically Absent
Memphis-Shelby County Schools posted a 30.2% chronic absenteeism rate in 2024-25 while every other major Tennessee district improved. The gap is widening.
Absence
180,000 Students Still Missing Too Much School
Tennessee cut chronic absenteeism from its peak but the pace of improvement halved last year, leaving nearly one in five students chronically absent.