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Neponset Grade School reports 14% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Neponset Grade School rose to 14 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Illinois Valley Times 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 Kewanee CUSD 229 saw a chronic truancy rate of 21 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 115 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.

Neponset Grade School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20155129
201611510
201731111
201811511
2019142113

Neponset Grade School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959394
2016969494
2017969394
2018959394
2019949194

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