# The ones who have stopped coming

> Severe absence is missing half of school. It rose after the pandemic and has not come back.

- Category: People
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `severe-absence`
- Source: [Department for Education](https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming](https://londongraph.com/g/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming](https://londongraph.com/data/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming)

## Methodology

Severely absent pupils — those missing 50% or more of possible sessions — as a share of state-funded secondary enrolments, by borough. A much smaller number than persistent absence and a much sharper one: these are children who are, in effect, no longer attending school at all.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming?view=overview): Severe absence is missing half of school. It rose after the pandemic and has not come back.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming?view=distribution): Place every mapped area in the selected measure's distribution while preserving missing values.
- [Persistent vs severe](https://londongraph.com/g/the-ones-who-have-stopped-coming?view=relationship): Compare persistent and severe secondary-school absence by borough. Caveat: A spatial association does not establish that either measure causes the other.

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Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.