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Lewis-Clark Junior High School reports 12% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Lewis-Clark Junior High School rose to 12 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Metro East Sun 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 Wood River-Hartford Esd 15 saw a chronic truancy rate of 11 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 229 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.

Lewis-Clark Junior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015339
20161610
20171411
20182411
2019121113

Lewis-Clark Junior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939494
2016949594
2017939394
2018939394
2019949494

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