{"id":592541,"date":"2025-11-25T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592541\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:38:18","slug":"the-schools-with-highest-attendance-rates-in-wales-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592541\/","title":{"rendered":"The schools with highest attendance rates in Wales: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh Government has an attendance task force trying to address how to get more children into school<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2_rbp_mai181125school42722JPG.jpg\" alt=\" Ysgol Gymraeg Caerffili\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The hope is to get more children into school(Image: WalesOnline\/Rob Browne)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"walesonline\">The Welsh Government is struggling to tackle stubborn absence rates since the pandemic. Here is everything you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"unordered-list\" publication=\"walesonline\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">The Welsh Government has published details of the schools with the highest attendance rates in a bid to share tips and ideas.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">One the schools highlighted for best practice is Ygol Gymraeg Caerffili, which has a catchment including some of the most deprived areas in Wales, recorded a 98.2% attendance rate in September 2025, compared to the all-Wales average of 93.4% for primary schools and 90.6% for secondaries &#8211; and even lower for some areas and groups.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Currently an average 8.2% of all half day school sessions are being missed in Wales, with higher absence among least well off pupils and those in key exam years, but not at a handful of schools which have bucked the trend.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">The Welsh Government has an attendance task force trying to address how to get more children into school.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Local authority data, released by the Welsh Government, shows the highest attendance rates this term are all primaries, and all but two of which are in Monmouthshire.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">All-Wales attendance: Primary schools 93.4%; Secondary schools 90.6%; Middle schools 90.3%; Special schools 86%.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">The highest school absence rates are in Carmarthenshire and Rhondda Cynon Taf both at 9% and Bleanau Gwent at 8.9%. The lowest absence rate is Monmouthshire with 6.6%.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">The Welsh Government said attendance rates are slightly up year on year<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">It is for local councils and schools to identify how to prioritise and use their family engagement officer funding, the Welsh Government added. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/education\/six-schools-highest-attendance-rates-32931245\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Welsh Government has an attendance task force trying to address how to get more children into schoolThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,69752,4884,16,15,1764,31933],"class_list":{"0":"post-592541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-caerphilly","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales","14":"tag-wales-schools"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115609672679647772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}