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Elgin High School reports 48% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Elgin High School rose to 48 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 88 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 2,592 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 88 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Elgin High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20152469
201625910
2017321211
2018331411
2019482013

Elgin High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015889494
2016879494
2017859394
2018859394
2019889394

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