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Wanda Kendall Elementary School reports 3% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Wanda Kendall Elementary School stayed flat at three percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Kankakee 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 Iroquois County CUSD 9 saw a chronic truancy rate of six percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 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.

Wanda Kendall Elementary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015379
20162510
20174611
20183411
20193613

Wanda Kendall Elementary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959494
2016969594
2017959594
2018959594
2019959494

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