According to the Freedom of Information Act, copies must be made upon request. A fee to recover actual costs may be charged. The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior to October 31 in each school year. The report card shall contain, but not be limited to, actual local school attendance center , school district and statewide data indicating the present performance of the school, the State norms and the areas for planned improvement for the school and school district. The actual local school attendance center is the location where a child is housed and counted as enrolled in school in the fall of the school year.
Present performance refers to the most recent data available for the various indicators.
State norms are the quantitative values that constitute the typical performance in Illinois. Areas for planned improvement include academic and other areas targeted for improvement by local administrators. The subtests are English, mathematics, reading and science reasoning. Student attendance rate is the aggregate days of student attendance divided by the sum of the aggregate days of student attendance and aggregate days of student absence multiplied by 100. Chronic truancy rate is the number of chronic truants divided by the average daily enrollment multiplied by 100.