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Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School reports 3% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School fell to three percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 97 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The City Of Chicago SD 299 saw a chronic truancy rate of 33 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 225 students in the 2018-19 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.

Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20151279
201633210
201733411
201853111
201933313

Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015979494
2016979494
2017979394
2018979394
2019979394

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