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Brookport Elementary School reports 13% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Brookport Elementary School rose to 13 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 93 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 209 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Brookport Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015169
20165610
201791311
201871211
2019131113

Brookport Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939394
2016929494
2017939394
2018919394
2019939394

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