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Dongola High School reports 10% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Dongola High School fell to 10 percent during the 2019-20 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 Dongola USD 66 saw a chronic truancy rate of six percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 81 students in the 2019-20 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 95 percent.

Dongola High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201691210
2017201011
2018161511
201917613
202010610

Dongola High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016909294
2017919294
2018919394
2019939494
2020959595

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