Chronic pain can have a profound effect on a young person's ability to attend school and perform academically. Despite recommendations for collaboration between clinicians and school staff to support youth with chronic pain, limited empirical data exist about models of hospital-school care or their efficacy. This study will compare changes in school attendance outcomes in youth attending interdisciplinary pain programs at two tertiary centres in Australia and the USA. In the US centre, the clinicians liaise directly with school staff. In the Australian centre, there is a formal collaboration between the Department of Health and the Department of Education, allowing a specialised liaison teacher to be embedded within the hospital's chronic pain team. The school attendance outcomes of each program will be compared and discussed. Suggestions for the development of future hospital-school partnership models of care will be discussed.