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Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School reports 18% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Aug 17, 2021

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The truancy rate at Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School rose to 18 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 93 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Dekalb CUSD 428 saw a chronic truancy rate of 19 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 315 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201512129
2016111010
20177611
201812911
2019181913

Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016959494
2017949494
2018949394
2019939294

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