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Dekalb High School reports 29% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Dec 24, 2021

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The truancy rate at Dekalb High School rose to 29 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 90 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 1,774 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 90 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Dekalb High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201533129
2016201010
20175611
20187911
2019291913

Dekalb High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939494
2016939494
2017919494
2018909394
2019909294

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