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Johnston Schools on Low End in Absenteeism

A Channel 12 study of school absenteeism found that Johnston had some of the lowest rates in Rhode Island.

Johnston schools fell on the lower end of the scale in what the state Department of Education terms "chronic absenteeism," meaning students who miss more than 18 days of the school year.

WPRI Channel 12 recently reported that 17 percent of all students in Rhode Island were classified as chronically absent during the 2011-12 school year, with four Providence high schools reporting more than 50 percent of students on the list.

Locally, Johnston High School recorded 27.59 percent chronic absenteeism, followed by the Early Childhood Center with 17.86 percent, Ferri Middle School wth 17.38 percent, and Thornton School with 15.47 percent.

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The three other elementary schools all had fewer than 10 percent of their students in the chronically absent category — Winsor Hill School [7.10], Brown Avenue School [5.78], and Sarah Dyer Barnes [4.58].

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