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Wheeling High School reports 3% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Wheeling High School rose to three percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a North 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 Township HSD 214 saw a chronic truancy rate of three percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 1,739 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.

Wheeling High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015119
20161110
20171111
20182111
20193313

Wheeling High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939494
2016869294
2017899394
2018929294
2019959694

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