Maryland Public School Attendance (SY 2003-2025) — msde

Attendance data from the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). The original CSV data files downloaded from MSDE are available in the data-raw/extdata folder on the GitHub repo for the package. Any percent variables with a value of 95 percent should be interpreted as equivalent at or above 95 percent. Any percent variables with a value of 5 percent should be interpreted as equivalent to at or below 5 percent. Chronic absenteeism data is not available prior to 2018 when the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (passed in 2015) went into effect and Maryland began to include the chronic absenteeism rate in the state's annual academic report cards. Variable definitions are based on the definitions from the MSDE website.

Usage

msde_attendance

Format

A data frame with 38,808 rows and 18 variables:

year: School year or academic year, e.g. 2019 for 2019-2020 school year
school_number: School number (0 indicates all schools)
school_name: School name
grade_range: Grade range used for attendance details.
attend_rate_pct: Attendance rate as defined as the average daily attendance rate of students in the school and grade band, including special education students
days_attended_count: Total number of students in attendance from the first day of school through April 13th
days_member_count: Total number of students registered to attend from the first day of school through April 13th
fewer_5_pct: Percent of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for five or fewer days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year
fewer_5_count: Count of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for five or fewer days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year
more_20_pct: Percent of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for twenty or more days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year
more_20_count: Number of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for twenty or more days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year
more_90_member_count: Number of students with an attendance rate of 90 percent or more
chronic_absentee_count: Number of students expected to attend school for at least 10 days who were absent 10 percent or more of the school days while enrolled at that school
chronic_absentee_denom: Number of students who are expected to attend school for at least 10 days in the school year
chronic_absentee_pct: Chronic absenteeism rate as defined as the percent of students expected to attend school for at least 10 days who were absent 10 percent or more of the school days while enrolled at that school
date_created: Date record created.
lss_number: Local school system (LSS) number as integer. NA is used in place of a LSS number for statewide data. Older LEA numbers are combined with LSS numbers in this dataset.
lss_name: Local school system (LSS) names (typically same as county name). "State" is used in place of a LSS name for statewide data. Older LEA names are combined with LSS names in this dataset.

Source

MSDE Data Downloads

Details

Last updated 2025-10-10.