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GCMS High School reports 4% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Aug 14, 2021

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The truancy rate at GCMS High School rose to four 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 96 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley CUSD 5 saw a chronic truancy rate of four percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 300 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 96 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

GCMS High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015029
20160110
201700.311
201800.411
20194413

GCMS High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959694
2016959694
2017959694
2018969694
2019969694

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