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Salt Fork Junior High School reports 7% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Salt Fork Junior High School fell to seven percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Chambana Sun 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 Salt Fork Community Unit District 512 saw a chronic truancy rate of five percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 196 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.

Salt Fork Junior High School chronic truancy rates 4-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20167310
20173211
20189511
20197513

Salt Fork Junior High School daily attendance rates 4-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016959694
2017969694
2018959594
2019969694

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