About one in three students in New York City public schools were chronically absent last school year, according to new data released Wednesday.

Students are considered chronically absent if they miss 10% of school days in one academic year for any reason. Students who are classified as chronically absent are more likely to have lower test scores and not graduate from high school, according to the state education department.

According to data released in the Mayor’s Management Report , 33.3% of students were chronically absent in the 2024-2025 school year — which represents a slight decrease from 34.8% in the 2023-2024 school year.

It’s also a large decrease compared to the 2021-2022 school year, which saw a high of 40.2% of students chronically absent, according to city data . That

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