Metro East Sun

The truancy rate at Katie Harper-Wright Elementary School fell to 40 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Metro East Sun analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 93 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 51 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 418 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Year	School	District	State
2016	3	5	10
2017	24	20	11
2018	81	84	11
2019	85	82	13
2020	40	51	10

Year	School	District	State
2016	90	85	94
2017	89	86	94
2018	88	85	94
2019	87	86	94
2020	93	89	95