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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Penn Elementary School reports 26% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Penn Elementary School fell to 26 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 97 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 313 students in the 2017-18 school year, and average daily attendance was at 97 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Penn Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend
Year
Chronic truancy rate
Daily attendance rate
School
District
State
School
District
State
2014
40
28
9
94
93
95
2015
50
27
9
94
94
94
2016
44
32
10
96
94
94
2017
57
34
11
95
93
94
2018
26
31
11
97
93
94