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The problem of truancy of students in a modern school is a frequent phenomenon that leads to student failures in learnin g. Truancy contributes not only to lowering the student’s performance at school, but also to deepening the existing diffi culties. The article presents related terms of truancy, their typology, determinants and consequences. Based on the results of the research, the scale of this phenomenon was discussed. Methods of preventing school truancy were also proposed.