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Highlands Elementary School reports 7% truancy rate

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

The school's average daily attendance rate was 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Prairie-Hills Esd 144 saw a chronic truancy rate of 28 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 312 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Highlands Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015139
201610.110
201720.211
20182511
201972813

Highlands Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016959494
2017939394
2018939494
2019949394

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