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Limestone Middle School reports 1% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Limestone Middle School stayed flat at one percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Kankakee Times analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 97 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Herscher CUSD 2 saw a chronic truancy rate of one percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 519 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 97 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Limestone Middle School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201600.210
20170.20.311
20182111
20191213
20201110

Limestone Middle School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016959594
2017969594
2018959594
2019959594
2020979695

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