Barrington Community Unit School District 220 is looking to get more Barrington High students back in the building for full-time in-person classes.
“We have plenty of space at (Barrington High School),” Superintendent Brian Harris said during a school board meeting. “We’ve had a lot of kids that originally reported they were going to come in person and did not. They have changed their position and have chosen now to be in full remote.”
The district reopened the school for in-person learning Jan. 19, using a hybrid model in which students alternated between attending class in the building and virtually.
However, a recent attendance study shows that, particularly among high school students, there’s a gap between those who said they wanted to attend in person and those who actually show up.
In the study, district officials looked at two days in which different groups of students were expected to be in the schools. Those numbers were then compared to actual attendance.
For early learning and elementary students, the percentage of attendance was near what officials expected — 92% for early learners and 96% for elementary students. In the middle schools, 84% of the students planned for were in the building. But in the high school, the actual attendance was just 68% of what was expected.
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