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East Leyden High School reports 4% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at East Leyden High School stayed flat at four 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 92 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Leyden CHSD 212 saw a chronic truancy rate of four percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 1,813 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 92 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

East Leyden High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015219
20164310
20172211
20184311
20194413

East Leyden High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015929294
2016919294
2017929294
2018919294
2019929394

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