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Dunbar Elementary School reports 66% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Oct 12, 2021

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The truancy rate at Dunbar Elementary School rose to 66 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 91 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The East St Louis SD 189 saw a chronic truancy rate of 82 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 461 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 91 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Dunbar Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015639
201613510
2017202011
2018598411
2019668213

Dunbar Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015938894
2016958594
2017938694
2018928594
2019918694

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