Bristol-Warren Schools on Low End in Absenteeism

Bristol-Warren schools fell on the lower end of the scale in what the state Department of Education terms "chronic absenteeism," meaning students who miss more than 18 days of the school year.

WPRI Channel 12 recently reported that 17 percent of all students in Rhode Island were classified as chronically absent during the 2011-12 school year, with four Providence high schools reporting more than 50 percent of students on the list.

Locally, Mt. Hope High School recorded 26.53 percent chronic absenteeism, followed by Hugh Cole School with 11.02 percent, and Kickemuit Middle School with 10.89.

The other elementary schools all had fewer than 10 percent of their students in the chronically absent category — Colt Andrews School [7.09], Rockwell School [6.78], and Guiteras School [5.52].

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