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Evergreen Elementary School reports 0.4% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Evergreen Elementary School stayed flat at 0.4 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a DuPage Policy Journal analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 97 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Benjamin SD 25 saw a chronic truancy rate of 0.2 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 328 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 97 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Evergreen Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20160010
20170.30.211
201810.311
20190.40.413
20200.40.210

Evergreen Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016969694
2017969694
2018969694
2019969694
2020979795

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