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Unity Elementary School reports 1% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Unity Elementary School fell to one percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Southern Illinois News 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 Massac Ud 1 saw a chronic truancy rate of 11 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 150 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.

Unity Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015069
20161610
201731311
201831211
201911113

Unity Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959394
2016959494
2017959394
2018959394
2019959394

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