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New Tech High - Zion-Benton East reports 11% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at New Tech High - Zion-Benton East rose to 11 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 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Zion-Benton Twp HSD 126 saw a chronic truancy rate of 29 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 350 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.

New Tech High - Zion-Benton East chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015649
201610710
20176311
201852311
2019112913

New Tech High - Zion-Benton East daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959294
2016949294
2017949194
2018949194
2019959194

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