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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Wegner Elementary School reports 1% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Wegner Elementary School stayed flat at one 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 West Chicago Esd 33 saw a chronic truancy rate of three percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 382 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.

Wegner Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201500.39
20161210
20170.2311
20181311
20191313

Wegner Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969594
2016979794
2017969694
2018969594
2019969594

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