Share your daily school attendance data
How schools can share daily attendance data.
Applies to England
We’re trialling collecting daily attendance data from schools. Collecting data daily will give schools, local authorities and multi-academy trusts (MATs) access to more timely pupil level attendance data. This collection will not add to your schools’ workload.
Who should send us data
This is a voluntary data collection for schools who complete the school census. This includes:
- maintained nurseries
- primary schools
- middle-deemed primary schools
- middle-deemed secondary schools
- secondary schools
- all-through schools
- special schools (including non-maintained special schools)
- pupil referral units
- alternative provision
- academies (including free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools)
- city technology colleges (CTCs)
The trial does not currently apply to independent schools.
What data we need
The data we’re collecting is a subset of the pupil level data we currently collect through census collections termly or annually (depending on the data field).
This includes the following data items:
- forename
- surname
- unique pupil number
- gender
- ethnicity
- child looked after
- child previously looked after
- SEN support
- education health and care plan
- free school meals
- national curriculum year group
- school URN
- local authority code
We’re requesting each of these data items for:
- pupils in reception
- all statutory school age pupils
- years 12 and 13 (if this is recorded in your management information systems)
We will not be collecting information that is recorded in the comments fields in your management information systems.
The data will be refreshed for codes changed within 7 days of registration.
How to send us your data
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The data will be collected by a company called Wonde. For schools who already work with Wonde, they will ask you through their secure portal to agree to share your attendance data with us.
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Once you agree, Wonde will connect with your management information system (MIS) to extract and transfer the data to us via their secure portal.
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Data will be collected automatically from your MIS daily. You can opt out of this data sharing at any time.
Sharing your data for this trial does not replace the education setting status form.
If your school does not use Wonde
If you do not use Wonde, you’ll be contacted by their team to help you install the secure portal. There will be no costs involved and it will enable you to share attendance data with us.
Wonde can extract data from these management information systems:
- Arbor
- Bromcom
- Cloud School
- Engage
- Facility
- Integris
- iSAMS
- PupilAsset
- ScholarPack
- SIMS
- SIMS Primary
- SchoolBase
- SchoolPod
- Teacher Centre
- WBCS
- Wonde Generic
How this data will be used
All data collected will be subject to . No information that identifies a child will be shared publicly.
We’ll use this data to identify national, regional and local trends and patterns in school attendance. We’ll also share our analysis with members of the Attendance Action Alliance. Read our for more information.
Any analysis we share will not include any data that could identify your school.
We will not use this data for:
- Ofsted or RSC decisions making
- judgements around what constitutes a school causing concern
- inspection, academisation or decisions to place or remove a school in a trust
- funding purposes
A for this collection is also available.
Accessing your data
In April, we expect to start sharing this data back with the sector. Data will be available via a dashboard on the view your education data service.
You’ll need a DfE sign-in account to access the service.
Using the service:
- you’ll be able to see data for your school
- MATs will be able to view the data of the participating schools they are responsible for
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local authorities will be able to view the data of participating schools within their area