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Waterbury Elementary School reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Waterbury Elementary School rose to six 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 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Keeneyville SD 20 saw a chronic truancy rate of 10 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 453 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.

Waterbury Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015019
20160210
20170411
20180.4111
201961013

Waterbury Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959594
2016969594
2017949494
2018949494
2019959594

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