Maori students are missing school more often than their peers in Tauranga but schools have measures in place to encourage attendance.
Figures showed 64.4 per cent of students in Tauranga city regularly attended school last year.
Only students who attended more than 90 per cent of school time were considered by the Ministry of Education to have attended regularly.
Maori and Pasifika students were less likely to attend school regularly than their peers in Tauranga. Just 56.1 per cent of Maori students and 53.6 per cent of Pasifika students attended school regularly last year.
Mount Maunganui College principal Russell Gordon said the school had an attendance officer who followed up on unexplained absences as well as a truancy officer who covered a number of schools.