Yes the same in England.
But it depends where you work, one college I worked at I was often the only white person in the room.
On Eid the place was like a ghost town.
I was supposed to teach as normal and then have students catch up later but there was no way I was teaching 1 or 2 children as normal.
One class I taught was 4-5pm. This group of students had morning classes and then something like a 3 hour break.
A couple of students asked me if they could go home at lunch. Well I couldn't let them but I did tell them that if they had not turned up by 4.10pm I would mark them on the register as observing a religious holiday.
I covered my backside by telling my manager I didn't know which students were Muslim so if they didn't turn up I would mark the register as a religious holiday.
I do think there is an argument for schools where there is a significant number of children of particular faith (and usually staff too) to have a day off.