Chicago City Wire

The truancy rate at Walter Henri Dyett High School rose to 42 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 93 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 22 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 614 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Year	School	District	State
2017	15	34	11
2018	6	31	11
2019	40	33	13
2020	42	22	10

Year	School	District	State
2017	93	93	94
2018	92	93	94
2019	92	93	94
2020	93	95	95