HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale High School District 86’s student absenteeism rate remains high compared with the years before the pandemic, according to the Illinois Report Card website.
The state tracks the rate of students who are absent 10 percent or more of the days in a school year, whether excused or not. For a 180-day year, that means a student missed at least 18 days, or 3½ weeks.
Last school year, 19 percent of Hinsdale Central’s students were chronically absent, a slight reduction from the previous year’s 21 percent. Pre-pandemic, the rate was 9 percent.
At Hinsdale South, 23 percent of students were chronically absent, down from 26 percent a year earlier. Before the pandemic, the rate was 17 percent.
Central and South are in the ballpark of similarly wealthy high schools in the area. Last year, the chronic absenteeism rates at York High in Elmhurst and Lyons Township High in La Grange were 22 percent and 23 percent, respectively. Their rates, too, are elevated compared to before the pandemic.
CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM
Here are the percentages of students who missed at least 10 percent of days in a school year with or without a valid excuse:
Hinsdale Central (Hinsdale)
2024 19%
2023 21%
2022 20%
2019 9%
2018 13%
Hinsdale South (Darien)
2024 23%
2023 26%
2022 23%
2019 17%
2018 16%
York (Elmhurst)
2024 22%
2023 37%
2022 22%
2019 10%
2018 16%
Lyons Township (La Grange)
2024 23%
2023 24%
2022 28%
2019 13%
2018 11%
Source: Illinois Report Card
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