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Marquette Elementary School reports 14% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Marquette Elementary School rose to 14 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 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Harlem Ud 122 saw a chronic truancy rate of 23 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 300 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Marquette Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015169
20161610
20171811
20182711
2019142313

Marquette Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959494
2016959494
2017959394
2018949394
2019959394

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