Attendance gaps that hide inside a single school average
A year-long percentage present can look steady while January on one bus route is a different school. Split the winter. Name the year group.
Most offices can print a percentage present for the year. Most chairs can read it. The trouble is January.
In several Tbilisi schools we have sat with, the year average stayed within a familiar band while one year group, one route from the hills, or a flu fortnight carried the whole dip. A single number invited a speech about “attendance culture.” The register, once split by month and by year, invited a conversation about a bus and a sick week.
We ask for session-level or at least monthly extracts, not a one-cell summary. We do not need pupil names. We do need to know whether Saturday lessons or exam-release days are in the denominator, because schools count those days differently and then compare themselves as if they did not.
If the board wants one sentence, it can be: the year is ordinary; January in year 8 is not. That sentence is only available if the picture was allowed to show January.