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Kimball Middle School reports 18% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Kimball Middle School rose to 18 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Kane County Reporter 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 SD U-46 saw a chronic truancy rate of 20 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 611 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.

Kimball Middle School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015569
20167910
2017101211
2018101411
2019182013

Kimball Middle School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959494
2016959494
2017959394
2018949394
2019949394

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