NWT students ‘miss more than a day of school each week’
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NWT students ‘miss more than a day of school each week’
Ollie Williams
Tuesday July 28, 2026 at 6:03am MT
A classroom at a school in the Sahtu community of Tulita. Aastha Sethi/Cabin Radio
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A years-long crisis in attendance at NWT schools is continuing and, in some cases, getting worse. In one region, 90 percent of students are “chronically absent.”
New figures published on Monday by the territorial government show the overall attendance rate for the 2024-25 school year was 73.1 percent.
“This means, on average, students in the NWT missed more than one day of school each week,” the terr…
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