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PhiladelphiaMetric proof

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

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    How it was computedvalue = published 'Average Daily Attendance (YTD)'
    1. 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

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    The load that wrote it1 data load wrote this metric
    LoadedSource fileYearsCellsSuppressedFile hashCommit
    2026-06-04sdp_attendance_ada_school2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-251,072004e0893c5f84…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

  3. 3
    The publisher's fileAverage daily attendance, by school and year

    Average daily attendance, by school and yearSchool 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

  4. 4
    How it was checkedChecks: 0 passed, 1 not run
    • not runNo separate base-case report; same loader and file family as attendance_rate_above_90
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    Assumptions & 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).

YearSectorGroupCellsSuppressed
2020-21District-runAll students2120
2021-22District-runAll students2130
2022-23District-runAll students2150
2023-24District-runAll students2160
2024-25District-runAll students2160

To see the tree for one school’s number, click any dotted-underlined figure on a school, Outliers, or Movers page.