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Bluford Grade School reports 8% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Bluford Grade School rose to eight percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a North Egypt 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 Bluford Unit School District 318 saw a chronic truancy rate of 11 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 256 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.

Bluford Grade School chronic truancy rates 4-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
20160.40.310
20171511
20180211
201981113

Bluford Grade School daily attendance rates 4-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016969694
2017959594
2018969594
2019959594

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