Monday, April 14, 2014

Average Daily Attendance

How Do I Find My School's Average Daily Attendance?

Average daily attendance percentages have always been a common way to get an idea of how your school's attendance looks overall. There hasn't seemed be be any easy ways to get this data out of PowerSchool with the access that we currently have. I did some digging and found a report that seems to give this data as well as some other helpful summary numbers. 

Another question I got recently was a quick way to see how many school days there have been to date. I suggested using the Class Attendance Audit report as it gives you total days in the final column. However, the Attendance Summary Report seems to be a better option to get this information. It conveniently puts the number of days included in your report at the top of the page, so if you run it on the entire school year it will count up those days for you. No need to get out your calendar! 

Continue reading for instructions on how to use this report.