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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Lakes Community High School reports 7% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Lakes Community High School rose to seven 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 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The CHSD 117 saw a chronic truancy rate of seven percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 1,338 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Lakes Community High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015339
20163410
20173311
20185411
20197713

Lakes Community High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939394
2016949494
2017949494
2018949494
2019949494

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