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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Dirksen Primary School reports 6% truancy rate

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The truancy rate at Dirksen Primary School fell to six percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a Peoria Standard analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 93 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The Pekin PSD 108 saw a chronic truancy rate of four percent during the 2018-19 school year, while the statewide rate was 13 percent.

The school enrolled 179 students in the 2018-19 school year, and average daily attendance was at 93 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 94 percent.

Dirksen Primary School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015029
20161310
20171211
20187411
20196413

Dirksen Primary School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2015949494
2016959594
2017949494
2018949494
2019939494

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