Fewer than seven in 10 District 200 teachers attended school regularly during the 2024-25 school year. The figure comes from Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) data in the 2025 Illinois Report Card.

Community Unit School District 200, which includes Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville South high schools, posted a 69.2% teacher attendance rate, the DuPage Policy Journal reported. West Chicago's Community High School District 94 came in at 73.3%.

Both figures sit above the statewide mark of 66% for teachers who attended school regularly. But they trail dozens of Illinois districts where attendance topped 90% or higher.

The two numbers measure different things.

The ISBE data also showed a statewide teacher retention rate of 89.5% for the 2024-25 school year. Retention measures whether teachers returned to their positions year over year, not how often they showed up on a given day. The distinction matters because the two metrics are sometimes reported interchangeably, and comparing a district's attendance rate to the statewide retention rate would be misleading.

Statewide, the number of full-time-equivalent teachers reached a record 137,899 in 2024-25, up 687 from the prior year. Unfilled teaching positions dropped 24% to 2,943 as of Oct. 1, 2025, and the vacancy rate fell to 2.1%.

Illinois public schools enrolled just under 1.85 million students during the school year, continuing a gradual decline from previous years. Student-teacher ratios held at 17-to-1 at both the elementary and high school levels.

State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders, in a statement accompanying the Report Card's Oct. 30, 2025, release, said the data "… shows that Illinois has some of the best schools in the country." Sanders did not address district-level teacher attendance figures specifically.

No public statement from District 200 or District 94 addressing the attendance figures appears in district records as of publication. The full 2025 Illinois Report Card, including school-level data, is available at isbe.net.