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Seneca High School reports 0.2% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Seneca High School fell to 0.2 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 97 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Seneca Twp HSD 160 saw a chronic truancy rate of 0.2 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 427 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 97 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Seneca High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20161110
20173311
20183311
20193313
20200.20.210

Seneca High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016959594
2017959594
2018959594
2019959594
2020979795

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