1.   A push to improve the overall attendance rate involved several different strategies.

2.   Attendance rates are calculated by dividing the number of openings in the school register by the number of pupils present.

3.   In the Health Study clinic attendance rates were significantly lower in the vitamin A group than in the placebo group.

4.   And the school now has the highest attendance rate of any in the district.

5.   But it says the continuing disparity in college attendance rates makes that political tradeoff worrisome.

6.   Fear of punishment certainly figures in the improved attendance rates, and many employers say they see a strengthening work ethic, Gibson said.

7.   Even so, enrollment data show startling differences in college attendance rates for high-income and low-income students with roughly comparable academic abilities.

8.   Student attendance rates and graduation rates make up the remaining two criteria.

9.   Test scores and attendance rates have edged up, and turnover has dropped.

10.   Test scores are climbing relative to state figures, along with attendance rates.