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By SUSAN EDELMANThe city Department of Educa-
tion is playing peek-a-boo with
its school attendance data —
which is all over the map, The
Post has learned.
While Mayor de Blasio on
Thursday told reporters he had
no attendance data to report, the
DOE quietly posted a total at-
tendance rate of 87.8 percent for
all 1,600 schools on that same day.
For the first time since schools
opened a month ago, the listing
gave figures for both remote and
in-person attendance on Oct 22.
Minutes after The Post asked
about the data, it was yanked,
suggesting it was posted by acci-
dent in the first place.
However, a spreadsheet down-
loaded before it was taken down
shows that student attendance
varies wildly among schools.
In-person attendance is sup-
posed to track students who come
to school one to three days a week,
learning online the other days.
The DOE data show 59 schools
reported in-person attendance of
less than 50 percent, with PS 165
Robert E. Simon in Manhattan
posting the lowest rate, 8.67 per-
cent. The school cited 86.3 per-
cent online attendance.
Another 213 schools reported
in-person attendance of less than
75 percent, and 777 schools re-
ported 75 percent to 99 percent
of students showing up.
Stunningly, 152 schools reported
100 percent in-person attendance.
At one of those schools, Francis
Lewis HS in Queens, teacher Ar-
thur Goldstein called the figure
“ridiculous,” pointing out that
Francis Lewis gives its 4,500 stu-
dents all-remote instruction. Stu-
dents may come to school one or
two days a week only for tutoring.
Goldstein said, “No school
ever has 100 percent attendance.
Students get sick, students have
other issues. Even before
COVID, we never had 100 per-
cent attendance. It’s impossible.”
Francis Lewis listed remote at-
tendance at 94 percent.
In addition, 463 schools did not
report any in-person attendancedata, marking “N/A” instead.
Of those, 124 schools in Brook-
lyn and Queens were ordered
shut because they are located in
COVID-19 “hot spots.”
But that left 339 open schools
reporting no in-person data at all.
Remote attendance also ranged
widely, from 18 percent to 68
schools reporting 100 percent. An-
other 68 schools reported “N/A.”
Marking students present on-
line doesn’t necessarily mean
they stay online to learn.
“A student can log on for a
minute and then not participate
in class, but I still have to mark
them present,” a Brooklyn high
school teacher said.
City Hall spokeswoman Avery
Cohen would not answer ques-
tions about the figures, saying, “It’s
preliminary to draw broad conclu-
sions from a snapshot of data.”
[email protected]DOE yanks up-&-down attendance data
Who’s Who’s
in? Who in? Who
knowsknows
MIA: The DOE on
Thursday posted, then
deleted, information on
remote and in-person
attendance levels.Paul MartinkaSchools Chancellor
Richard Carranza’s highly
anticipated new grading
policy for this school year
will again ban failing
marks, according to an in-
ternal memo obtained by
The Post, riling educators.
The city Department of
Education document, ti-
tled “Grading Policy 2020-
2021,” says schools should
use the same softer “con-
siderations” adopted lastMay during the COVID-
shutdown.
Among the main guide-
lines:
“Continue to use ‘course
in progress’ in place of
failing grades.”
“Permit students in high
school an additional
semester to complete
coursework and meet the
learning outcomes for
their courses.”
Susan EdelmanThe city Department of
Education quietly posted a
total attendance rate of
87.8% for 1,606 schools
recorded on Oct. 22, calling
it a “preliminary report.”
The data includes both
remote and in-person rates.
59 schools reported
less than 50% in-person
attendance213 schools reported
less than 75% in-person
attendance
777 schools reported
75% to 99% in-person
attendance152 schools reported
100% in-person
attendance
124 schools shut down
because of COVID-
outbreaks339 open DOE schools
reported NO in-person
data.
Source: NYC DOEThe city will have to give
a laptop loaded with “cul-
turally responsive” text-
books to every student un-
der a bill to be introduced
next week by Council-
members Ben Kallos and
Farah Louis.
The measure was
prompted by a Department
of Education official’s stun-
ning testimony at a recent
City Council hearing that77,000 students still lack In-
ternet-equipped iPads
needed for remote learning.
“Every student should have
a computer and Internet as
part of their public-school
education,” Kallos said.
The bill would require
that all student laptops or
tablets come with the text-
books, which can be ob-
tained for free, according
to Kallos.While the DOE recently
ordered 100,000 iPads in
addition to the 300,000 it
distributed during the
COVID-19 shutdown, the
bill emphasizes laptops
with keyboards — espe-
cially for older students.
“It’s really hard to type
out a 1,000-word essay by
hunting and pecking each
letter,” Kallos told The
Post. Susan EdelmanLaptops & books for students
Taking attendance