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Sycamore High School reports 4% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Sycamore High School rose to four percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a DeKalb Times 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 Sycamore CUSD 427 saw a chronic truancy rate of two percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 1,214 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.

Sycamore High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201510.49
20162110
20171111
20180.4111
20194213

Sycamore High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959594
2016959594
2017929594
2018909394
2019959694

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