Nearly 15% of American students are chronically absent from school. To address absenteeism, many states have recently made chronic absence a core component of their school accountability plans. Scholars have theorized that a positive school climate can promote student attendance, but empirical support for this idea is lacking. In this study, the relationship between four student-reported measures of school climate and student attendance are investigated by analyzing two annual school climate surveys (N = 823,753) from New York City. Results indicate small associations among the four measures of perceived school climate and student attendance. Furthermore, school-level changes in perceived school climate between middle and high school were only marginally associated with student attendance.

长期有近15％的美国学生长期缺课。为了解决旷工问题，许多州最近将长期缺勤作为其学校问责计划的核心组成部分。学者们认为，积​​极的学校氛围可以提高学生的出勤率，但缺乏对这一想法的经验支持。在这项研究中，通过分析两次来自纽约市的年度学校气候调查（N = 823,753），调查了四种由学生报告的学校气候测量与学生出勤率之间的关系。结果表明，在感知到的学校氛围和学生出勤这四个量度之间存在较小的关联。此外，在中学和高中之间，学校层面的感知学校气候变化仅与学生出勤率略有相关。