MIS

Overview

This article explains how to view attendance across your school, broken down by year group or class, for a selected time range (Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, Next Week, This Half-term, Last Half-term, This Term, Last Term, This Year, or Last Year). 

Instructions

To view attendance for a specific date range and group (Class or Year Group), from Juniper MIS:

1. Select Reports.
2. Select Attendance.
3. Select Analysis to open the Attendance Analysis report:
   
4. Select Filters to view the report's Filters:
   

5. Select a Groups from the filters. 

   If you want to use other filters at this point, see Hints and tips when using Filters below.

   The report updates to show attendance for the specified group and time period.

Outcome

The report updates to reflect your filter selection, showing attendance for the specified group and time period:

1. The individual Class / Year Group attendances are displayed, comprising details of the possible sessions (POSSIBLE SESSIONS) for each group, the attendance percentage (ATTENDED), absences (AUTH + UNAUTH), a breakdown of authorised (AUTH) and unauthorised (UNAUTH) absences, and lates (LATE).
2. The TOTAL row at the bottom of the report shows an overall summary for all Class / Year Group attendances shown in the report:
   
3. Select a Class / Year Group from the first column to open a new window showing the attendance report at a pupil level:
   
   1. Select a pupil's Name to view their attendance record.
   2. Select Filters to add / remove filters applied to this view.

Hints and tips when using Filters

The following guidance will help you to set the additional Filters in either of the report views (the overall Attendance Analysis view or the Class / Year view) based on your needs:

1. Select how you want to view your results in Group Type:
   • Select Group Types / Year Group to group your results by Year Group.
   • Select Groups to group your results by Class.
2. Optionally, select one or more Groups to restrict the content of the reports to specific Year Groups or Classes (based on your previous selection).
3. By default, the Academic Year is set to the current academic year. If you wish to view the attendance data for a previous Academic Year:

   1. Select the Academic Year:

      

   2. Select how to view pupil groups using Group pupils by their…:

      

      • Current year group: View attendance data using the pupils’ current year group (for example, this year’s Year 5).
      • Year group at the time: View attendance data based on the year group pupils were in at that time (for example, last year’s Year 4 for pupils who are now in Year 5).
4. As required, check Exclude Current Non-Statutory Age Pupils to remove pupils who are of non-statutory age from the analysis. By default this is unchecked.
5. As required, check Include Leavers to show leavers in the analysis. By default this is unchecked.
6. Select the Time Period you want to analyse:
   • Either select a specific period from those available for selection (Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, Next Week, This Half-term, Last Half-term, This Term, Last Term, This Year, or Last Year),
   • Or select Fixed Range for a specific set of dates, then select a Start Date and End Date.

7. Optionally, if you want to view all session data, select Additional Data, then check Show Sessions:

   

8. Optionally, if you want to view a breakdown of attendance by individual code, select Additional Data, then check Show Code breakdown:

   

Updated 03 July 2026 09:10