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Joppa Junior & Senior High School reports 9% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Joppa Junior & Senior High School fell to nine 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 96 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Joppa-Maple Grove Ud 38 saw a chronic truancy rate of seven percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 102 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 96 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Joppa Junior & Senior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20166810
20175511
20184411
2019161213
20209710

Joppa Junior & Senior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016939494
2017939494
2018959594
2019949594
2020969695

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