Woodbridge Elementary in Baltimore County has seen absenteeism plummet from 28% to around 6% since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which the school’s principal, Lori Phelps, attributes to various strategies to increase school attendance. “Once you see how successful the interventions are, you just kind of keep using them,” she said. There’s still work to do across Maryland school districts in bringing down chronic absenteeism — defined as missing at least one-tenth of enrolled school day