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South Elgin High School reports 23% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Dec 22, 2021

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The truancy rate at South Elgin High School rose to 23 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 SD U-46 saw a chronic truancy rate of 20 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 2,666 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.

South Elgin High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015569
20166910
201791211
201891411
2019232013

South Elgin High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016949494
2017899394
2018929394
2019919394

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