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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Highland Elementary School reports 15% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Highland Elementary School fell to 15 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Kane County Reporter 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 SD U-46 saw a chronic truancy rate of 14 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 610 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.

Highland Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20167910
2017111211
2018141411
2019212013
2020151410

Highland Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016969494
2017949394
2018949394
2019949394
2020939395

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