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Ellington Elementary School reports 36% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Oct 8, 2021

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The truancy rate at Ellington Elementary School rose to 36 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 472 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.

Ellington Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201532279
2016333210
2017523411
2018343111
2019363313

Ellington Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969494
2016979494
2017969394
2018969394
2019959394

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