Here at St William’s, we work in partnership with parents and carers to ensure children attend school regularly and are punctual to school. It is the expectation of our school community that children will be in school every day that it is open, unless there are exceptional circumstances which have led to an absence being authorised. Our target for attendance for all pupil groups is ‘at least 97%’.
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We firmly believe that when children are in school every day and on time, this is reflected in good progress being made in the classroom and will give children the best possible opportunity to succeed and achieve in our school.
The average attendance for Bolton primary schools in the 2025-2026 academic year was 94.5%.
Our school attendance:
Attendance for Academic Year 2022-2023 was 95.2%
Attendance for Academic Year 2023-2024 was 95.1%
Attendance for Academic Year 2024-2025 was 95.8%
Attendance for Academic Year 2025-2026 was 95.6%
- The rate of overall absence (4.4%) and persistent absence (9.8%) in Summer 2026 was in the lowest 10% of schools with a similar level of deprivation.