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Whitehead Elementary School reports 12% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Whitehead Elementary School rose to 12 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Rockford Sun 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 Rockford SD 205 saw a chronic truancy rate of 23 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 597 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Whitehead Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015779
20167710
20179811
20186911
2019122313

Whitehead Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939494
2016949494
2017949494
2018939294
2019939194

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