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Melrose Park Elementary School reports 20% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Melrose Park Elementary School rose to 20 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a West Cook News analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 95 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 21 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 735 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Melrose Park Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201513179
2016101310
201771011
20185811
2019202113

Melrose Park Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959594
2016959694
2017959494
2018959494
2019959494

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