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Ridgewood Elementary School reports 8% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Ridgewood Elementary School rose to eight 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 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The East Moline SD 37 saw a chronic truancy rate of 13 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 413 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.

Ridgewood Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015439
20165510
20174611
20185511
201981313

Ridgewood Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959494
2016959594
2017959394
2018959494
2019959494

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