The equivalent of more than 4,000 school days were missed by pupils at Merseyside’s worst offending site for truancy last year.
The data indicated how more than 1.5 million pupils missed at least 10% of lessons last year nationally.READ MORE: Hotel security 'kept shaking their head' when group tried to check in A further 12.8% of sessions were missed at Dixons Fazakerley Academy, while around 10% were skipped at Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Knowsley and The Academy of St Francis of Assisi , and Gateacre School . A session is defined as half a day of school.
A total of 22 schools in England reported no unauthorised absences whatsoever. The largest of those was St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School in Milton Keynes.