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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Durfee Magnet Elementary reports 41% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Durfee Magnet Elementary rose to 41 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Macon Reporter analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 88 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Decatur SD 61 saw a chronic truancy rate of 29 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 330 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 88 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Durfee Magnet Elementary chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20158109
2016191510
2017322011
2018312511
2019412913

Durfee Magnet Elementary daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015919294
2016919294
2017919294
2018919194
2019889094

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