Chicago City Wire

The truancy rate at Taft High School fell to 26 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 94 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 3,655 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 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
2016	44	32	10
2017	46	34	11
2018	40	31	11
2019	40	33	13
2020	26	22	10

Year	School	District	State
2016	91	94	94
2017	89	93	94
2018	90	93	94
2019	91	93	94
2020	94	95	95