Columbus City Schools District
More Than Half of Columbus Students Were Chronically Absent
More than half of Columbus City Schools District students were chronically absent in 2024-25. The district reported a 52.6% rate under Ohio's chronic-absence measure.
Nine Ohio Districts Had Chronic-Absence Rates Above 50%
> Correction (July 21, 2026): The earlier headline incorrectly equated a chronic-absence classification with being absent more often than present. The article also presented rate-times-enrollment esti...
Nearly Half of Ohio's Black Students Are Chronically Absent — and the Gap Is Widening Again
At Cleveland Municipal, 58.6% of Black students were chronically absent in 2024-25. Not 58.6% absent on any given day — 58.6% who missed at least 10% of required school hours, Ohio's definition of chr...