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Chiddix Junior High School reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Chiddix Junior High School stayed flat at six 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 95 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 699 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Chiddix Junior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015119
20161110
20170.4211
20186811
201961113

Chiddix Junior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969594
2016959594
2017959494
2018959494
2019959494

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