FAIRMONT The Fairmont Area School Board heard from Superintendent Andy Traetow on Tuesday who recapped the recent Martin County Leadership’s visit. “La
Each year, families looking to enroll their child at a new school, or in the district for the first time, must navigate the OneApp, rebranded this year as the NOLA Public Schools Common Application Process, or NCAP.
Originally published on April 21, 2021 1:54 pm
Attendance among New Orleans public school students has significantly improved since the beginning of the school year, but it’s still not where it used to be.
District-wide data obtained by New Orleans Public Radio show an average daily attendance rate of 86 percent in early March nearly 6 percentage points lower than it would be in a typical school year.
The district’s average attendance rate was 91.8 percent for the 2018-2019 school year, slightly beneath the state average of 93.7 percent. Roughly 80 percent of students attended school daily when classes resumed virtually in August.
Attendance rates have improved gradually since students first began returning to the classroom in late September. They dropped again in January when most students pivoted back to online learning due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. When schools reopened in February, the attendance rate again started to inch its way back up.