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Jacksonville High School reports 16% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Dec 13, 2021

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The truancy rate at Jacksonville High School fell to 16 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 93 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Jacksonville SD 117 saw a chronic truancy rate of 10 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 908 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Jacksonville High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016501810
2017191211
2018221511
2019271713
2020161010

Jacksonville High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016939494
2017919394
2018909394
2019909394
2020939595

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