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Kankakee Junior High School reports 20% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Kankakee Junior High School fell to 20 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 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Kankakee SD 111 saw a chronic truancy rate of 26 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 710 students in the 2019-20 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 95 percent.

Kankakee Junior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016252410
2017252411
2018332411
2019574013
2020202610

Kankakee Junior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016939394
2017939394
2018919294
2019929194
2020949395

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