Last school year, Greater Egleston High School on the border of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, saw a 98.9% rate of chronic absenteeism among students, according to data from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Ninety students were enrolled in the small pilot school for 2022-2023, meaning about 88 of them missed 10% or more of the 180-day school year calendar, the metric by which the state of Massachusetts defines chronic absenteeism.
Schools across the Commonwealth – and especially in Boston – have been trying to rebound from the national explosion in absenteeism that descended with the COVID-19 pandemic.
