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Number of sick students at City High decreases
Meredith Hines-Dochterman
Oct. 9, 2009 5:06 pm
IOWA CITY - The number of sick students has decreased at Iowa City High School.
About 23 percent of the school's students were out sick Friday. The school reported 397 students absent Thursday.
About 400 students were out of school Wednesday with flu like symptoms, roughly 25 percent of City High's student population.
Student illnesses also dropped Grant Wood and Horace Mann elementary schools, both which had 10 percent of their students absent Friday. The percentage of sick students at Tate High School dropped below 10 percent.
All three schools had 10 to 12 percent of students absent earlier this week.
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