South Cook News

The truancy rate at Barack Obama School Of Leadership And Stem fell to 24 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a South 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 Park Forest SD 163 saw a chronic truancy rate of 17 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 416 students in the 2019-20 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 95 percent.

Year	School	District	State
2016	1	3	10
2017	5	4	11
2018	1	1	11
2019	52	39	13
2020	24	17	10

Year	School	District	State
2016	96	95	94
2017	92	93	94
2018	90	92	94
2019	90	92	94
2020	95	95	95