Metro East Sun

The truancy rate at Annette Officer Elementary School rose to 83 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 89 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The East St Louis SD 189 saw a chronic truancy rate of 82 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 422 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 89 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	0	3	9
2016	0.2	5	10
2017	24	20	11
2018	80	84	11
2019	83	82	13

Year	School	District	State
2015	92	88	94
2016	89	85	94
2017	88	86	94
2018	87	85	94
2019	89	86	94