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Appleton school district outlines truancy data, interventions and proposal to reinstate citations
Summary
Appleton Area School District presented updated chronic absenteeism and truancy data, described current interventions and outlined proposed dispositions including possible municipal citations as a last resort; the committee set a tentative timeline for further consideration.
Superintendent Greg Archus and district staff presented updated attendance data and discussed a proposed return to municipal truancy citations during the Aug. 13 Safety and Licensing Committee meeting.
Archus said the district’s chronic absenteeism rate for the 2024–25 high-school year was 29.1 percent, an increase from prior years. He said 1,269 high-school students missed 18 or more days in 2024–25; within that group, 404 missed 36 days, 240 missed 50 or more days and 39 missed 100 or more days. Archus also said 866 high-school students met both the district’s chronic-absence threshold and the state definition of habitual truancy.
A parent, Angie Day, told the committee she pushed for a county referral for her son because she believed outside accountability helped change his behavior. "I advocated for a county referral regarding my son's truancy because I believed he needed more support than the school could provide," Day said, adding that the county referral made her son take warnings more seriously.
A former-student letter read by district attendance coordinator Stephanie Marta…
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