Metro East Sun

The truancy rate at Estelle Sauget School of Choice stayed flat at 19 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 92 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Cahokia CUSD 187 saw a chronic truancy rate of 51 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 250 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 92 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Year	School	District	State
2015	7	19	9
2016	10	22	10
2017	7	27	11
2018	19	41	11
2019	19	51	13

Year	School	District	State
2015	93	91	94
2016	94	92	94
2017	94	90	94
2018	91	87	94
2019	92	89	94