Quincy Senior High School had the highest truancy rate among 18 schools in Adams County - 32.6%, while Liberty Elementary School had the highest attendance rate - 95.9%.
Students are considered chronically truant if they miss 5% of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The statewide truancy rate was 22.1% during the 2021-2022 school year.
Some schools have incomplete data, which is factored into the calculations.
In Adams County schools enrolled 8,457 students in the 2021-2022 school year, and average daily attendance was at 90.5% for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 90.8%.
In 2022, Illinois had 1,925,415 students enrolled in a total of 3,977 schools. There were 130,467 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16.
K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting demographic changes. Combined public and private K-12 enrollment dropped three percent between the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school year (60,900 students), far more than the typical 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent annual enrollment declines in Illinois over the last 5 years.
| School | Chronic truancy rates (%) |
|---|---|
| Quincy Senior High School | 32.6 |
| Seymour High School | 22.2 |
| Quincy Junior High School | 20.7 |
| Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School | 13.5 |
| Thomas S. Baldwin Elementary School Site 2 | 12.9 |
| Unity Elementary School | 10.8 |
| Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School | 9.8 |
| Colonel George Iles Elementary School | 9.5 |
| Seymour Elementary School | 8.4 |
| Central High School | 6.4 |
| Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary School Site 2 | 6.3 |
| Central Junior High School | 5.8 |
| Liberty High School | 5.4 |
| School | Daily attendance rate (%) |
|---|---|
| Liberty Elementary School | 95.9 |
| Central 3-4 Middle School | 95.3 |
| Central Elementary Grade School | 94.8 |
| Seymour Elementary School | 94.1 |
| Liberty High School | 94 |
| Central Junior High School | 93.8 |
| Unity Middle School | 93.8 |
| Central High School | 93.1 |
| Unity Elementary School | 93.1 |
| Unity High School | 92.2 |
| Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School | 92 |
| Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary School Site 2 | 91.9 |
| Thomas S. Baldwin Elementary School Site 2 | 91.9 |
| Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School | 91.7 |
| Colonel George Iles Elementary School | 91 |
| Seymour High School | 90.3 |
| Quincy Junior High School | 88.8 |
| Quincy Senior High School | 85.6 |
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