How accurate are attendance data?
How accurate are attendance data in SD-STARS?
The attendance suite of reports remains popular in SD-STARS and can give valuable insight to educators who wish to analyze data related to attendance and chronic absenteeism.
In the past, districts would need to synchronize their Infinite Campus District Edition data to the state to have accurate attendance data.
Over a year ago, the SD-STARS team and the Data Management team worked on an enhancement with Infinite Campus to have attendance data automatically update daily into SD-STARS. With this enhancement, attendance data will now function like enrollment data, which means changes happen as part of SD-STARS overnight processing.
It is important to note that this change only affects attendance data in SD-STARS reports. There was no change in policy or practice regarding how districts should enter data into Infinite Campus.
Find more information. Questions? Please contact STARSHelp@state.sd.us.