To show how a strategically managed intervention can reduce absence

Type: Comprehensive                                 

Age range: 11-18

Location: Small town school in a rural setting with pupils drawn from a wide social and economic range

Number of pupils: 586  with  3.7% of pupils entitled to FSM

Other: The school is a specialist technology college with a small Sixth Form. It is in an area where the high cost of housing makes it difficult to recruit and retain teachers and this has made it difficult for the college to raise attainment in shortage subjects, such as Mathematics.There is a smaller proportion than nationally of students for whom English is an additional language.