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Fairfield Community High School reports 13% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Fairfield Community High School rose to 13 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a SE Illinois News analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 93 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Fairfield Comm H S Dist 225 saw a chronic truancy rate of 13 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 427 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Fairfield Community High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015229
20166610
20177711
2018121211
2019131313

Fairfield Community High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016939394
2017939394
2018929294
2019939394

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