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Mt Carmel Grade School reports 17% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Mt Carmel Grade School fell to 17 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a SE Illinois News 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 Wabash CUSD 348 saw a chronic truancy rate of eight percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 389 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.

Mt Carmel Grade School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201621910
20175511
20188311
2019271413
202017810

Mt Carmel Grade School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016959594
2017959594
2018959594
2019959594
2020979695

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