Attendance rate is defined as the number of actual full-time equivalent student-days attended by full-time students in Years 1-10 as a percentage of the total number of possible student-days attended over the period.
No data was published for 2020 due to data inconsistencies as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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School attendance rates Australia 2014-2023 by Indigenous status
In 2023, the average school attendance rate for First Nations students in Australia was just over ** percent. This was more than *** percent lower than the average attendance for non-Indigenous students in Australia that year. After a drop in attendance in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, attendance has been slowly rising to pre-Covid-19 numbers.
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Department of Education and Training, & ACARA. (September 10, 2024). School attendance rates in Australia from 2014 to 2023, by Indigenous status [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 26, 2026, from /statistics/1076993/australia-school-attendance-rates-by-indigenous-status/
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