What does 60% Attendance Daily Attendance Mean: ADA in an Early 20th Century Rural Texas County

An examination of 887 records of attendance by 739 individual students, some from multiple years, from 338 individual families (63 African American (139 students) and 275 White (600 students) families) revealed showed patterns of attendance related to guardian occupation and extra-academic events. Many students had 100% attendance for the days they were enrolled in school; because some enrolled in school late or were withdrawn from school prior to the end of the school year, the attendance figure is less than 100%, even though the child may have been in school each day during the enrolled period.