Student Success and Attendance Program

The Success Team is connecting with students and families with identified barriers to school attendance, such as truancy, chronic absenteeism, and tardies. The goal is to decrease those barriers at school and home by providing the tools and resources they need for school and life success.
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Student Success Mission

We are connecting with students and families with identified barriers to school attendance, such as truancy, chronic absenteeism, and tardies. We aim to decrease those barriers at school and home by providing the tools and resources they need for school and life success.

Student Success

The Student Success team assists schools within our serving region in assisting and promoting student attendance.

Success Community Support Services

The ROE offers community support services to help students and families feel supported and connected to helpful resources. If your family is experiencing challenges that may affect your child’s attendance or participation in school, our team is here to help. We work alongside schools and community partners to connect families with support. If you would like assistance, please complete the referral form and someone from our team will reach out.
Referral Form
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Truancy is defined as absent without a valid cause.

A student’s school will mark a student absent unexcused when the student is absent without a valid cause. Valid causes for absences can include illness, death of an immediate family member, doctor/dentist/counseling appointment, religious need, and more. (See your school’s handbook for local policy.)

Schools typically allow parents to “call in” these types of absences. When a student exceeds the school’s limit for excused absences or when a student misses school without a valid cause, the school may determine that an absence is unexcused or require documentation. Unexcused absences are considered while determining if a student is considered chronically truant.

Parents Guide to Truancy
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DCSST Truancy Resource Hub
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Chronic Truancy

In the state of Illinois, a Chronic Truant is any student subject to compulsory school attendance who is absent without valid cause for 5% of the previous 180 school days. A school year has approximately 180 days. 5% of the school year is nine days. A student’s truancy may be contained to one school year or fall over a period of more than one school year.