Child and Family Policy Center. This report is an analysis of absenteeism in Iowa of early-elementary students from the 2010-11 school year through third grade in 2013-14. The analysis finds that one-third of all districts and nearly 40 percent of elementary schools have rates of chronic absence among kindergartners in excess of 10 percent. The report used data on over 37,000 students from the Iowa Department of Education’s longitudinal data system. Students are disaggregated by grade, race/ethnicity, disability status and eligibility for free lunch programs.