I believe this isn’t paywalled: “Database: Check your school’s measles immunization rate” — a database that allows the reader to look at vaccination rates by school, for Illinois, as reported to, and then by, the Illinois State Board of Education.
Unfortunately, there appear to be problems with this data: for each school, there are data points on total enrollment, total vaccinated, number with religious or medical exemptions, numbers with “vaccinations scheduled,” and a remaining category of “not vaccinated.” Is this category one that the Tribune has calculated based on the preceding numbers, meaning that the data is bad? Or does this mean that, in fact, even if a parent neither vaccinates nor presents an exemption, the kid is, in fact, not actually excluded from school — that the vaccination requirements aren’t actually enforced?
Unfortunately, the categories of Vaccinated and Not Vaccinated are sortable, but the exemptions aren’t. Still instructive, though.
Incidentally, the CDC reports that 95.5% of Illinois kindergartners were vaccinated. This survey says that 98.3% were — which would seem to suggest that the majority of the unvaccinated kindergartners due ultimately get the vaccine, so as to boost the rate for schoolchildren as a whole.
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