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Mitchell Elementary School reports 7% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Mitchell Elementary School stayed flat at seven 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 420 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.

Mitchell Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20153279
201653210
2017103411
201873111
201973313

Mitchell Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969494
2016969494
2017969394
2018969394
2019979394

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