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York Center Elementary School reports 12% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at York Center Elementary School rose to 12 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a DuPage Policy Journal analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 96 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The SD 45 Dupage County saw a chronic truancy rate of 14 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 205 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 96 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

York Center Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015019
20161110
201710811
201810511
2019121413

York Center Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969594
2016969594
2017959594
2018959594
2019969694

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