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Spring Wood Middle School reports 5% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Spring Wood Middle School fell to five 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 Keeneyville SD 20 saw a chronic truancy rate of six percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 464 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.

Spring Wood Middle School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20163210
20173411
20181111
2019101013
20205610

Spring Wood Middle School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016969594
2017959494
2018949494
2019949594
2020979695

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