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Coal City High School reports 3% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Coal City High School fell to three 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 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Coal City CUSD 1 saw a chronic truancy rate of two percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 685 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Coal City High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015129
20161210
20174311
20185411
20193213

Coal City High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959694
2016959694
2017959594
2018949594
2019959694

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