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Amboy Junior High School reports 4% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Amboy Junior High School rose to four percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a NW Illinois News analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 95 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Amboy CUSD 272 saw a chronic truancy rate of four percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 216 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 95 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Amboy Junior High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015229
20161110
201700.311
20181111
20194413

Amboy Junior High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015959594
2016969594
2017969594
2018969594
2019959594

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