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Mount Carmel High School reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Mount Carmel High School rose to six 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 96 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 509 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 96 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Mount Carmel High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
201614910
20179511
20181311
201941413
20206810

Mount Carmel High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016949594
2017959594
2018959594
2019959594
2020969695

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