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Ricms reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Ricms stayed flat at six percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Rock Island Today analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Rock Island SD 41 saw a chronic truancy rate of 18 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 535 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Ricms chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201692010
201781811
201811611
201963213
202061810

Ricms daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016959394
2017959394
2018969394
2019969194
2020949195

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