Quantcast

Lake County Gazette

Monday, May 20, 2024

Waukegan High School reports 63% truancy rate

Hs 08

The truancy rate at Waukegan High School rose to 63 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 86 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Waukegan CUSD 60 saw a chronic truancy rate of 38 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 4,606 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 86 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Waukegan High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201520199
2016191810
2017292511
2018352411
2019633813

Waukegan High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939394
2016939494
2017909294
2018909394
2019869194

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS