Absenteeism continues to demand more attention as educators look for promising practices that might promote positive school-going behaviors. This is salient for kindergartners, who miss the most school out of any elementary grade level. Research is lacking in how the school bus might be associated with attendance, though we hypothesize that improve attendance would occur because bus-riding assists with the development of family routines and logistics. To address this, this study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey to look descriptively at how school busing might be associated with absenteeism for kindergartners in rural communities. We find that school bus riders in rural communities miss fewer school days on average than those in suburban, urban, or town communities and are less likely to be chronically absent, although this varies depending on the degree of rurality. Rural communities have unique features that are very different from their urban or suburban counterparts and these features should be considered when designing interventions for rural students.

随着教育工作者寻找有希望的做法来促进积极的上学行为，旷工现象继续引起人们的更多关注。对于那些在任何小学年级中错过最多学业的幼儿园的学生来说，这是非常重要的。缺乏关于校车与出勤率之间关系的研究，尽管我们假设出勤率会提高，因为公车骑行有助于家庭常规和后勤的发展。为了解决这个问题，本研究使用了早期儿童纵向调查，以描述性的方式探讨了在农村社区，幼儿园的上班族可能与旷课有关。我们发现，与郊区，城市或城镇社区相比，农村社区的校车驾驶员平均缺勤天数更少，而且长期缺勤的可能性也较小，尽管这取决于农村的程度。农村社区具有与城市或郊区社区非常不同的独特功能，在设计针对农村学生的干预措施时应考虑这些功能。