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Glenbard East High School reports 9% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Glenbard East High School stayed flat at nine 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 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Glenbard Twp HSD 87 saw a chronic truancy rate of six percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 2,244 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Glenbard East High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015329
20163210
20174311
20189611
20199613

Glenbard East High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939494
2016939494
2017939494
2018949494
2019949594

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