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Spaulding Elementary School reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Spaulding Elementary School rose to six 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 Gurnee SD 56 saw a chronic truancy rate of seven percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 462 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.

Spaulding Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015239
20166410
201713411
20183211
20196713

Spaulding Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949594
2016959594
2017959594
2018949594
2019959594

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