It's a school absence rate that is hard for the girl to make up for and partly accounts for girls dropping out of high school.

The agency said the rate was more than three times the 3.1 percent absence rate on the same day last year.

TSA spokesman Michael Bilello on Monday said TSA had a 7.6 percent unscheduled absence rate nationally, compared to a 3.2 percent rate a year ago.

The new measures to tackle school absence rates come into force in September.

School absence rates are getting worse, Ministry of Education figures reveal.

We compared student absence rates, adjusting for cluster design.

Fining parents for taking children out of school in term time in Wales has had no effect on overall absence rates, a review has found.