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Kipp Academy Chicago Campus reports 25% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Kipp Academy Chicago Campus stayed flat at 25 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 381 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.

Kipp Academy Chicago Campus chronic truancy rates 3-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2017463411
2018253111
2019253313

Kipp Academy Chicago Campus daily attendance rates 3-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2017959394
2018969394
2019979394

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