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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Neoga Junior/Senior High School reports 10% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Neoga Junior/Senior High School rose to 10 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 93 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Neoga CUSD 3 saw a chronic truancy rate of nine percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 336 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Neoga Junior/Senior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015429
20163410
20176511
20182311
201910913

Neoga Junior/Senior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939494
2016959594
2017949594
2018939494
2019939394

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