West Cook News

The truancy rate at J. Sterling Morton Freshman Center fell to 13 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 J S Morton HSD 201 saw a chronic truancy rate of 18 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 1,066 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	16	10
2017	4	17	11
2018	14	17	11
2019	18	25	13
2020	13	18	10

Year	School	District	State
2016	95	91	94
2017	96	90	94
2018	94	90	94
2019	94	92	94
2020	96	94	95