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Gillespie High School reports 10% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Oct 7, 2021

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The truancy rate at Gillespie High School fell to 10 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Education Daily Wire analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Gillespie CUSD 7 saw a chronic truancy rate of eight percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 370 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Gillespie High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20169710
201791111
2018121011
2019251913
202010810

Gillespie High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016949594
2017939494
2018939494
2019929494
2020959595

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