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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Memorial Elementary School reports 8% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Memorial Elementary School fell to eight percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a East Central Reporter 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 Paris-Union SD 95 saw a chronic truancy rate of two percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 315 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Memorial Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015129
20163210
20173211
201810511
20198213

Memorial Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949394
2016959494
2017949594
2018939594
2019949594

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