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Northeast Junior High School reports 7% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Northeast Junior High School fell to seven percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Rock Island Today 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 Silvis SD 34 saw a chronic truancy rate of eight percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 183 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.

Northeast Junior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201515189
2016121510
20177711
20188711
20197813

Northeast Junior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016949594
2017939494
2018939494
2019939494

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