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South Elgin High School reports 15% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Dec 26, 2021

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The truancy rate at South Elgin High School fell to 15 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 94 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 14 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 2,717 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

South Elgin High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20166910
201791211
201891411
2019232013
2020151410

South Elgin High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016949494
2017899394
2018929394
2019919394
2020949395

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