13 per cent of Australian students missing a year of school by year 10

Nearly 13 per cent of Australian students and more than half of all Indigenous students are missing at least one year of schooling by the time they reach year 10, despite the nation achieving 100 per cent school enrolment rates.

"These students are missing at least one day of school a fortnight, they're at least a month behind per year and by the time they get to year 10, they've missed about a year of schooling," said Megan O'Connell, an honorary senior fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education."That's a huge amount of content you're missing if you're missing a month of school every year and they fall further and further behind because that keeps adding up.

For Indigenous students, this figure increased to nearly 70 per cent of year 10 students and 66 per cent of year 9 students. "You'll have some children who attend school every day and some who miss much more than one day a fortnight, but there's a core group of people who aren't meeting the 90 per cent benchmark and aren't attending enough to keep up with their peers," Ms O'Connell said.

The low attendance level figures come as the school enrolment rate for children aged between 6 and 15 was at 100 per cent in 2017, and Ms O'Connell said programs to address the problem need to go beyond broad mandatory policies.

School refusal has been a growing, significant issue for many years, and once it takes hold, parents and schools struggle to deal with the problem. Usually significant underlying mental health issues are the major indicators, and must be dealt with sensitively.

So what is the number. 13% or 1/3rd (33.3333%) ? Or have Nine Entertainment cut the real staff and left only billable acts. auspol

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