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Mount Vernon Elementary School reports 31% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Jul 21, 2021

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The truancy rate at Mount Vernon Elementary School fell to 31 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Education Daily Wire analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The City Of Chicago SD 299 saw a chronic truancy rate of 33 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 245 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Mount Vernon Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201543279
2016423210
2017593411
2018453111
2019313313

Mount Vernon Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016949494
2017939394
2018959394
2019959394

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