Average daily attendance
The school's year-to-date average daily attendance rate — the share of enrolled student-days actually attended.
Measured in percent; higher is better.
Identifiers
key average_daily_attendance · unit PERCENT · direction HIGHER_BETTER
- 1How it was computedvalue = published 'Average Daily Attendance (YTD)'
- Read the district's ADA CSV; keep directory schools; store the published rate (all students only).
Algorithms applied downstream: Citywide and peer-group percentiles, Peer groups: 40 nearest neighbors on demographics
- 2The load that wrote it1 data load wrote this metric
Loaded Source file Years Cells Suppressed File hash Commit 2026-06-04 sdp_attendance_ada_school 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 1,072 0 04e0893c5f84… f75e3313 The hash identifies the exact file version read; the commit identifies the exact code. Both are recorded at load time.
Evidence: sdp_attendance_and_suspensions.ts
- 3The publisher's fileAverage daily attendance, by school and year
Average daily attendance, by school and year — School District of Philadelphia (Performance Office). Each school's year-to-date average daily attendance rate (share of enrolled days attended), all students only.
- format
- CSV
- join key
- ULCS Code
- District sector only.
Evidence: source registry (sources.yaml) · sdp_attendance_ada_school: first-fetch findings
- 4How it was checkedChecks: 0 passed, 1 not run
- ○ not runNo separate base-case report; same loader and file family as attendance_rate_above_90
- 5Assumptions & caveatsAssumptions and caveats
No modeling assumptions — stored as published.
Caveats
- District-run schools only.
- All-students figure only; no subgroups published.
Coverage by year, sector, and subgroup
Cells served, with how many are suppressed (withheld by the publisher for small groups).
| Year | Sector | Group | Cells | Suppressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | District-run | All students | 212 | 0 |
| 2021-22 | District-run | All students | 213 | 0 |
| 2022-23 | District-run | All students | 215 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | District-run | All students | 216 | 0 |
| 2024-25 | District-run | All students | 216 | 0 |
To see the tree for one school’s number, click any dotted-underlined figure on a school, Outliers, or Movers page.