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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Blackstone Elementary School reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Blackstone Elementary School fell to six percent during the 2019-20 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 Mendota CCSD 289 saw a chronic truancy rate of six percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 208 students in the 2019-20 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 95 percent.

Blackstone Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20164210
20173311
20185311
201911913
20206610

Blackstone Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016949594
2017949594
2018959594
2019959594
2020939295

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