SPRING VALLEY — The Hall High School administration is focusing on failing students and absent students, and the connections between the two groups.

At Wednesday’s school board meeting, Hall Assistant Principal Angie Carpenter presented a report on the failure data for the fall semester for the freshman class. Carpenter said of the 113 students in the class, 21 students had received one or more Fs for the semester. Carpenter said this was the same number of freshmen who received an F at the end of last year’s fall semester, but that class was smaller, so the percentage of students failing dropped from 21.4 percent to 18.5 percent.

“We’d like to see a lot fewer freshmen coming in and failing,” she said.