32 Million Students Were in Schools With Severe Attendance Problem: Report

On top of that, nearly 15 million student were chronically absent during the 2021-2022 school year.

A school bus is parked at a depot in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on April 19, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Two-thirds of American students attended schools that had high or extreme levels of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-2022 school year, a recent analysis of federal data suggested.

Students are deemed chronically absent when they miss 10 percent of school days or more. Absenteeism numbers are separate from students who stopped attending school and never re-enrolled.