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GCMS Middle School reports 7% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at GCMS Middle School rose 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 Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley CUSD 5 saw a chronic truancy rate of four percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 230 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.

GCMS Middle School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015229
20160110
201700.311
201800.411
20197413

GCMS Middle School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015969694
2016979694
2017969694
2018969694
2019969694

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