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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Steger Intermediate Center reports 10% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Steger Intermediate Center rose to 10 percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Will County Gazette analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Steger SD 194 saw a chronic truancy rate of 12 percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 471 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Steger Intermediate Center chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
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201681110
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2019101213

Steger Intermediate Center daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016949494
2017949494
2018949494
2019949394

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