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Walker School reports 0% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Walker School stayed flat at 0 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 Hinsdale CCSD 181 saw a chronic truancy rate of 0 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 286 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.

Walker School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015009
201600.110
201700.111
20180011
20190013

Walker School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969594
2016969594
2017969594
2018959494
2019969594

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