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Columbia High School reports 1% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Columbia High School stayed flat at one percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a SW 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 Columbia CUSD 4 saw a chronic truancy rate of one percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 629 students in the 2018-19 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 94 percent.

Columbia High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015219
201610.210
201710.311
20181111
20191113

Columbia High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015939594
2016939594
2017959694
2018959694
2019969694

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