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Walter Henri Dyett High School reports 40% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Oct 14, 2021

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The truancy rate at Walter Henri Dyett High School rose to 40 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 92 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 477 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 92 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Walter Henri Dyett High School chronic truancy rates 3-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2017153411
201863111
2019403313

Walter Henri Dyett High School daily attendance rates 3-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2017939394
2018929394
2019929394

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