impact of absenteeism in schools
Decreased School Budget. Excessive absenteeism also places an extreme strain on the school's budget, and allocated finances in each school district. Average daily attendance, or ADA, is the average attendance rate of students in a school year.States utilize a school district's ADA to determine the allocated funding it will receive.roviding substitutes for all of these absent teachers costs schools, cumulatively, at least $4 billion a year. USA Today further reported that in some states nearly 50 percent of the teachers miss more than 10 days of school in a typical 180-day school year.