Parents of South Australian children who regularly miss school could be fined as the state considers options for its "toolkit" to increase attendance rates.

Education Minister Susan Close said she wanted to crackdown on parents who did not take their child's school attendance seriously.

The attendance rate in the state was above 90 per cent last year, but Dr Close said she would like to see further improvements.

Dr Close conceded prosecution of parents for their child's truancy did not have a high success rate and she signalled she was looking at a raft of measures to reform the Education Act.

"We have found it increasingly difficult to get prosecutions up successfully so what I want to do is have a look at whether the legislation needs to be changed," she said.

"I'm also interested in exploring whether we can start fining parents. I'm interested in having all the tools in our toolkit."

She said working with families and their children would always be the first step to tackling the issue and fines would not always be a deterrent.

"Now usually that [fines] won't work. It won't be helpful and it won't be necessary but ever so often there will be a family who are more likely to respond to a fine and people trying to work with them to help their kids.

"The first stage is always to work with a family, however I think it's important to have a full range of tools.

"It's important to be able to go further if families really aren't engaging properly. They're only hurting their own children by not sending them to school."

She said 60 wellbeing practitioners with social work expertise would be employed in schools across the state to help families.