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Meehan Elementary School reports 8% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Meehan Elementary School stayed flat at eight 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 Belvidere CUSD 100 saw a chronic truancy rate of nine percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 609 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.

Meehan Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015559
20163510
20175711
20188811
20198913

Meehan Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959494
2016959494
2017959394
2018959494
2019959494

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