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Kimes Elementary School reports 13% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Kimes Elementary School rose to 13 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 93 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Streator Esd 44 saw a chronic truancy rate of eight percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 473 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.

Kimes Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015329
20163410
20177411
20187611
201913813

Kimes Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959594
2016969594
2017959594
2018939494
2019939394

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