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Data Central: Chronic Truancy Rates and Totals

Students
Attendance
Chronic Truancy
Annual dropout rate
Graduation Rate
Limited English-Proficiency
Low-Income
Mobility
Racial/Ethnic Background
Enrollment

Test Scores
Elementary:
ISAT Overall
ISAT Reading
ISAT Math
NAEP rankings
NAEP scale scores
High schools:
ACT Composite
Prairie State: Reading, Math, Writing
Prairie State: Overall

Teachers
Gender
Racial/Ethnic Background
With Master's and Above
Experience
Classes not Taught by Highly Qualified Teachers

Salaries
Teachers
Administrators

Schools
Expenditure per pupil:
Instructional
Operational

Chronic truants are students who are absent from school without valid cause for 18 or more of the last 180 school days.

	Chicago	Illinois
2009	11.3%	3.7%
2008	4.2%	2.5%
2007	4.1%	2.5%
2006	3.4%	2.2%
2005	3.9%	2.2%
2004	3.6%	2.1%
2003	3.2%	1.9%
2002	3.2%	2.0%
2001	3.9%	2.2%
2000	4.3%	2.4%
1999	4.0%	2.3%
1998	4.4%	2.3%
1997	4.6%	2.3%
1996	4.7%	2.3%
1995	5.7%	2.4%
1994	5.3%	2.4%
1993	4.7%	2.2%
Source: Illinois School Report Card Note: Data was not listed in school report cards before 1993.

	Chicago	Illinois
2000	17,241	45,109
1999	15,947	43,332
1998	17,307	43,167
1997	18,145	42,546
1996	18,250	42,974
1995	21,733	43,666
1994	20,192	42,314
1993	18,916	38,599
1992	16,289	34,141
1991	16,894	34,427
1990	15,753	33,799
1989	14,610	31,471
1988	10,559	25,019
Source: Illinois School Report Card Note: This data was last reported in 2000.