2026 OCAP State of the Child Report

EDUCATION

Chronic Absenteeism Among All Students by Race/Ethnicity 2020-2021 to 2024-2025 American Indian/Alaska Native Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander White Asian Black/African American Hispanic of Any Race Multiracial Filipino None Reported

Percent of Students Chronically Absent, Riverside County and California 2016-2017 to 2024-2025  Riverside County California

40%

32.7

45

28.2

30

23.3

30.0

22.1

40

24.9

17.3

20

20.4 19.4

11.8 12.5 12.6

35

14.3

10

12.1

11.1

10.8

30

0

16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24 24-25

25

Chronic Absenteeism Among Students by Program 2024-2025 ˜

English Learners Foster Youth Students with Disabilities Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Unhoused Youth

Migrant Education

20

15

40%

37.5 37.0

30

32.3

10

25.4

24.1

20

29.4

5

10

0

0

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

Percent of Riverside County Students Suspended 2020-2021 to 2024-2025‰

Chronic Absenteeism by Grade 2024-2025 ‰

4.3

TK and Kindergarten Grades 1–3 Grades 4–6 Grades 7–8 Grades 9–12

26.1

5%

3.7

3.5

3.0

18.5

1 2 3 4 0

17.7

21.8

0.1

26.7

2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025

Percent of K-12 Students Who Were Chronically Absent in 2024-2025 by Riverside County Region

 California Department of Education. (2025). Chronic absenteeism rate. DataQuest. https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/ ŽCalifornia Department of Education. (2025). Suspension rate. DataQuest. https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/DisSuspRate.aspx?year=2024-25&agglevel=County&cds=33&ro=y ⁶Riverside County O—ce of Education, Data O—ce. (2025).

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