Tennessee public school students are considered chronically absent if they are absent for 10 percent or more instructional days for any reason, including excused absences and out-of-school suspensions. The chronic absenteeism rate is the percent of students who are chronically absent. Excessive absences from school represent lost instructional time for a student. 2020-21 chronic absenteeism data represents all students, whether they attended school in-person or remotely during the school year. Discipline data from the 2020-2021 school year is not comparable to the same data in other years. Schools and districts responded to the pandemic by opting to use in-person or remote instruction models, according to local needs. These local instructional model choices, which were sometimes made on a student-by-student basis, also came with changes in discipline practices and record keeping. Because the Report Card cannot provide sufficient local context about each school’s or district’s discipline practices across students, it is not displayed on the Report Card. For additional downloadable data, as well as discipline data from previous years, click here.