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Monday, April 15, 2024

Marshall Metropolitan High School reports 100% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Marshall Metropolitan High School stayed flat at 100 percent during the 2017-18 school year, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The schools average daily attendance rate was 74 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss 5 percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The City Of Chicago SD 299 saw a chronic truancy rate of 31 percent during the 2017-18 school year, while the statewide rate was 11 percent.

The school enrolled 337 students in the 2017-18 school year, and average daily attendance was at 74 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Marshall Metropolitan High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend
Year
Chronic truancy rate
Daily attendance rate
School
District
State
School
District
State
2014
100
28
9
80
93
95
2015
91
27
9
86
94
94
2016
89
32
10
89
94
94
2017
100
34
11
79
93
94
2018
100
31
11
74
93
94