9.96 per cent, have been off due to coronavirus since the start of term in September, with 156 schools reporting positive cases.
East Riding Council figures show that 97 pupils were learning from home due to COVID outbreaks in schools as of Saturday, November 6, with figures for teachers unavailable.
It comes as public health officials were previously concerned that higher than average infection rates among school age children were driving case rises in communities.
The infection rate among 11 to 15 year olds in the East Riding was 1,800 per 100,000 Tuesday, October 5 and Monday, October 11.
The rate for East Riding five to 10 year olds was 900 per 100,000 during the same week.
But while rates for under 18s had fallen by the start of November following the October half term holidays, cases among 60 to 70 year olds were on the rise.
East Riding Council’s Public Health Director Andy Kingdom said that was because coronavirus had spread from younger to older people and the clinically vulnerable.
He added it came as the effectiveness of their first vaccine doses was beginning to wane which the booster programme seeks to top up.
That indicates the same trend is being seen in Hull given the fall in coronavirus related school absences, while the East Riding’s total has increased.
The drop also comes as the 12 to 15 year old vaccine roll out continues in both Hull and the East Riding.
A total of 4,866 under 18s in Hull and 7,567 in the East Riding had received their first vaccine dose by Thursday, November 4.
The equivalent figures for Hull and the East Riding were 4,007 and 6,173 respectively as of Thursday, October 28, according to NHS figures.
Mr Kingdom previously said public health officials aimed to have rolled out first vaccine doses to all 12 to 15 year olds by the end of this month.
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