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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Highland Middle School reports 0.3% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Highland Middle School rose to 0.3 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Lake County Gazette 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 Libertyville SD 70 saw a chronic truancy rate of 0.1 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 873 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Highland Middle School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015009
20160010
20170011
20180011
20190.30.113

Highland Middle School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969694
2016979794
2017979794
2018959694
2019969694

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