Guidance: Monitor your school attendance: user guide
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View cookies Skip to main content GuidanceMonitor your school attendance: user guide
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities on using the monitor your school attendance tool.
From: Department for Education Published 27 March 2024 Last updated 16 October 2025 — See all updatesApplies to England
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Monitor your school attendance: user guide
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Monitor your school attendance: technical issues
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Monitor your school attendance: how to use the absence bandings report
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Monitor your school attendance: fix common issues
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The monitor your school attendance data tool is available on the view your education data service. It provides useful information on your school’s attendance and absence.
You can use the tool to:
- view secure attendance reports for the whole school, individual pupils or pupil characteristic groups
- compare your school attendance within the local authority and see your school’s position for attendance and performance nationally
- download attendance data
If you do not have access, you’ll need to:
- be already sharing your daily attendance data with the Department for Education
- request access to the tool
Updates to this page
Published 27 March 2024 Last updated 16 October 2025 + show all updates-
16 October 2025
Updated the 'Attendance data downloads' section in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
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9 September 2025
Updated data in the table for 'Academic weeks start and end dates' in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
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1 September 2025
Updated the 'Attendance and sickness returns', 'Year-to-date comparison reports' and 'Attendance data downloads' sections in 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'. Also added a new section, 'Export attendance and absence codes'.
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31 July 2025
Added a new section, 'Leavers in your local authority who have not enrolled at another school in England', to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
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17 July 2025
Added 'Monitor your school attendance: fix common issues' and updated ‘Monitor your school attendance: technical issues’.
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3 July 2025
Updated the 'Attendance summary and similar schools comparison reports' section of the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
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11 June 2025
Updated the active and closed issues in 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' to add further information.
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22 May 2025
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' with improved information about how to use the tool.
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19 March 2025
Added the 'Attendance summary reports' section to the 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide'.
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3 February 2025
On 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' we have updated active and closed issues.
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19 December 2024
Updated the user guide to clarify the pupil data in the attendance downloads and added a link to 'How to use the absence bandings report'. Updated the technical issues document with the latest active user issue - inaccurate attendance results - and how to fix it.
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28 November 2024
Added 'Monitor your school attendance: how to use the absence bandings report'.
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14 November 2024
On 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' we have added information on the check your leaver data report, how data is calculated in the tool and the differences between daily data and the fortnightly published stats. On 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' we have updated active and closed issues to help users resolve problems.
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25 September 2024
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' and 'Monitor your school attendance: technical issues' to close completed issues.
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23 September 2024
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' with information on 'The 10 days of continuous unauthorised absence report' and 'Year-to-date comparison reports'.
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4 September 2024
Updated 'Monitor your school attendance: user guide' to include new codes.
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22 August 2024
Updated feature information and added new filters available within the tool. Data definitions have been updated with changes to attendance codes effective from 19 August 2024.
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27 March 2024
First published.
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