Kindergarten attendance went up while more than half of 12th-graders were chronically absent.
By Khushboo Rathore
Oregon Journalism Project
Attendance at Oregon public schools improved only slightly during the 2024–25 school year, and continued to lag behind the national average.
Data that the Oregon Department of Education released Nov. 20 shows regular attendance improved by 0.8% over the previous year. That means about 3,100 more students out of the state’s roughly half-million regularly attended classes.