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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018
Seaside: Oregon’s absenteeism rate is one of the worst
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The district this year started
a colloquium period during
which students check in with
a teacher or other staff mem-
ber four to five days a week.
Having adult mentors is key
to keeping students engaged,
along with creating interesting
academic opportunities, Roley
said.
Seaside will soon move
to a new K-12 campus in the
hills east of the city center. It
remains to be seen whether a
more rural campus cuts into
absenteeism, but the district
will be taking certain mea-
sures in response to the new
location, such as closing cam-
pus during lunch, Roley said.
More than one-fifth of stu-
dents statewide were consid-
ered chronically absent last
school year. The rate is one of
the worst in the nation and has
consistently grown worse over
the past several years from
15.2 percent in 2013-14.
Aside from Seaside, county
schools have shown more
progress in regards to the
absenteeism rate and trended
lower than the state. Fewer
than 9 percent of the 157 stu-
dents in the rural K-12 Jewell
School last school year were
chronically absent, far below
the district’s 21.5 percent rate
in 2016-17 and 24.5 percent in
2015-16. Jewell’s rate was the
lowest in the county, followed
by 15.9 percent in Astoria and
16.8 percent in Warrenton.
Knappa’s chronic absentee-
ism rate surpassed the state’s
at 21.7 percent last year, but
was down from 22.3 percent
the two years prior.
Astoria’s chronic absen-
teeism rate last school year
decreased by 4 percent overall
from 2016-17. The school dis-
trict recently began the Strive
for Five campaign to publi-
cize the importance of atten-
dance. Craig Hoppes, the
school superintendent in Asto-
ria, said the district has made
a lot of progress, and has seen
the results borne out in bet-
ter test scores, but ultimately
wants to get below 10 percent
chronic absenteeism.
“We’ve never commu-
nicated like this at the high
school or districtwide to par-
ents about the importance of
attendance,” he said of Strive
for Five.
The rate of chronic absen-
teeism has traditionally been
highest among kindergartners
and high school juniors and
seniors. While more than one-
fifth of kindergartners state-
wide were chronically absent,
the rate was only 10 percent in
Jewell, 12.3 percent in Astoria
and 12.8 percent in Warrenton.
More than 30 percent of kin-
dergartners in Knappa were
chronically absent last school
year, along with one-third in
Seaside.
More than 29 percent of
high schoolers were chron-
ically absent statewide, com-
pared to 23.4 percent in Astoria
and 24.3 percent in Warren-
ton. Seaside and Knappa were
the only districts to surpass 30
percent and the statewide rate.
State schools chief Colt
Gill, an appointee of Gov. Kate
Brown, has faced criticism for
planning to withhold com-
pleted school report cards until
after the November election.
The report on chronic absen-
teeism was due out more than
a week ago, but had been ten-
tatively pushed back to Nov.
1 without explanation before
a surprise decision to release
complete school performance
data Friday, according to The
Oregonian.
The state recently created
its own attendance campaign,
Every Day Matters, as part
of a goal of Brown’s to have
90 percent of incoming high
school freshmen graduate with
a diploma or through a GED
exam.
“We know that every day a
student attends school means
an additional opportunity for
learning,” Gill said in a news
release. “Our Every Day Mat-
ters campaign is one part of
a larger effort throughout the
state to improve attendance.
Reducing chronic absentee-
ism requires all of us to do our
part. Schools need to make
sure students are welcomed
and engaged. Families need
to recognize the importance of
attendance and every commu-
nity needs to look at local bar-
riers that can impact student
attendance.”
More than one-
third of students
at Seaside High
School last year
were consid-
ered chronically
absent, missing at
least 10 percent of
the school year.
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