West Cook News

The truancy rate at Melrose Park Elementary School fell to 10 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a West Cook News analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 96 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 saw a chronic truancy rate of 14 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 728 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 96 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	10	13	10
2017	7	10	11
2018	5	8	11
2019	20	21	13
2020	10	14	10

Year	School	District	State
2016	95	96	94
2017	95	94	94
2018	95	94	94
2019	95	94	94
2020	96	96	95