Map: Compare Monrovia Student Truancy Rates to the Rest of L.A. County

While last week's map on state discipline data showed Monrovia to be well above average in the percent of students suspended, the same report shows that the number of students absent without an excuse in 2011-12 at the district to be well below state and county average.

According to state figures, 16.6 percent of Monrovia's students were truant at least once in 2011-12.  That compares with 32.4 percent of students in L.A. County and a 28.5 percent average statewide.

While the district as a whole ended up with lower truancy rates there were a couple of schools above the county average - Canyon High, where 87.9 percent of students were truant at least once, and Monrovia High, where that rate was 36.2.  Elementary school truant rates at the district showed almost nobody reported absent without an excuse in 2011-12.

Truancy rates for each school can be found in the database above.

The data comes from a report issued in April by the California Department of Education, which looks at suspensions, expulsion and truancy at schools across the state.  More data on the subject can be found at the state's website under the 'Expulsion, Suspension and Truancy' category.

How to Use the Above Map and Form

The above map shows the truancy rate for each unified school district in the county.  Districts that service just one level of school are not pictured on the map.  Clicking on each district gives the suspension rate, expulsion rate, truancy rates and more.

The map's is color-coded with the greener shades having lower rates than the state average, the yellows and orange around or between the county and state average and the red's above both county and state average.

The database below the map allows you to look up more data for each school district or for any individual school in the county.  Be sure to use just one of the two categories to search; use either 'district' or 'school,' not both.

On the list of schools the database shows, schools in green have truancy rates at least 10 percent below the state average, while yellow schools are within 10 percent and red ones at least 10 percent above.

Please note the raw figures for suspensions show the number of students suspended not the total number of suspensions -- some students were suspended more than once.