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Zion-Benton Township High School reports 32% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Dec 28, 2021

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The truancy rate at Zion-Benton Township High School rose to 32 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 Zion-Benton Twp HSD 126 saw a chronic truancy rate of 29 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 2,207 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.

Zion-Benton Township High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015449
20167710
20172311
2018262311
2019322913

Zion-Benton Township High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015919294
2016919294
2017919194
2018919194
2019919194

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