Secondary School Absence Trends in Barnet

Barnet, a London borough, is the primary geographic focus of this dataset on secondary school attendance. It tracks absence trends at the local authority, national, and individual school levels for the 2014-15 academic year. The data is available on multiple open data platforms, indicating its use for public reporting.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking school-level absence rates against local and national averages.
• Analyzing temporal trends in student attendance for the 2014-15 period.
• Informing local education policy based on aggregated attendance data.

Strengths

• Provides multi-level analysis (school, local authority, national) for comparative insights.
• Has a clearly defined temporal scope for the 2014-15 academic year.
• Is hosted on multiple public data platforms, suggesting established use.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is missing: no column names, row counts, or file formats are specified.
• There is a significant conflict in data freshness: one source lists an update date in 2026, while another is from 2015.
• The dataset's structure and granularity are unclear due to the lack of column information.

Provenance

Source

London Borough of Barnet

Time Range

2014-15

Freshness

2026-04-29 06:02:15.051972

Geography

Barnet (London Borough), with national UK comparisons