Adrian Martinez-De La Cruz

More students are regularly attending school, according to the Indiana Department of Education, as the state's chronic absenteeism rate declined for a third straight year.

Data released by the IDOE last week showed 16.7% of Hoosier students missed at least one-tenth of school days, or about three and a half weeks, during the 2024-25 school year. That figure is over a percentage point lower than the previous academic year .

The most recent chronic absenteeism rate is over four points lower than in 2022, when over a fifth of students were reported to be chronically absent. However, the rate is still higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, only 10.6% of students were considered chronically absent.

Chronic absenteeism rate saw year-over-year improvem

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