Connecticut School District Attendance Rates During COVID-19

Attendance rates for public school students PK-12 across Connecticut districts during the 2020-2021 school year. The dataset includes rates for the overall student population and the high-needs student subgroup, which comprises English language learners, special education recipients, and students qualifying for free and reduced lunch. Data suppression rules are applied to protect student confidentiality and prevent misinterpretation of small sample sizes.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on school attendance by comparing overall and high-needs student attendance rates across districts.
• Investigate disparities in attendance rates between the general student population and the high-needs subgroup, which includes students eligible for free and reduced lunch.
• Identify districts with significant attendance gaps for English language learners or special education students within the high-needs category.
• Assess the correlation between district-level socioeconomic factors, inferred from the high-needs population, and attendance rates during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Strengths

• Provides data for a critical period, the 2020-2021 school year, capturing the direct impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.
• Includes a defined high-needs student subgroup, enabling analysis of equity and disparities across vulnerable populations.
• Applies documented data suppression rules to protect student privacy and ensure statistical reliability.

Limitations

• Specific row and column counts, sample sizes, and data granularity are unknown from the provided input.
• Contains suppressed data cells, which may limit analysis for smaller districts or specific student groups.
• Data is from a single state (Connecticut), limiting geographic generalizability.

Provenance

Source

State of Connecticut

Collection Method

Collected from public school districts, likely as part of state education reporting requirements.

Time Range

2020-2021 school year

Freshness

Dataset metadata was last updated in January 2026, but the underlying data covers the 2020-2021 school year.

Geography

Connecticut, United States