Students who attend school regularly are more likely to:

* Earn higher grades

* Graduate from high school

* Enroll in college

* Earn higher incomes

* Be employed in professional occupations

* Enjoy good health

Conversely, students who miss a lot of school are more likely to:

* Fail or drop out of school

* Be unemployed or underemployed

* Live in poverty

* Experience health problems

However, attendance is not the only factor that affects academic achievement.

There are many other factors that can contribute to student success, such as:

* Family support

* Socioeconomic status

* Health

* Learning disabilities

* Motivation

Therefore, it is important to consider all of these factors when evaluating the relationship between attendance and academic achievement.

Additional research on the relationship between attendance and academic achievement:

* A study by the National Center for Education Statistics found that students who missed 10% or more of school days in the 9th grade were seven times more likely to drop out of high school than students who attended school regularly.

* A study by the University of California, Berkeley found that students who missed 18 or more days of school in the 10th grade scored an average of 70 points lower on the SAT than students who attended school regularly.

* A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that students who attended private schools had higher school attendance rates than students who attended public schools, and that this difference in attendance rates accounted for part of the difference in academic achievement between private school students and public school students.

* Many schools use automated phone, text, and/or email notification to alert when absences have accumulated on a child's record