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Parkside Junior High School reports 13% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Parkside Junior High School rose to 13 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a McLean County Times 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 McLean County USD 5 saw a chronic truancy rate of 11 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 674 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Parkside Junior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015119
20161110
20171211
20188811
2019131113

Parkside Junior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959594
2016959594
2017949494
2018959494
2019949494

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