Chair of the Board Dr. Steven Isoye (2023) | Illinois State Board of education
Chair of the Board Dr. Steven Isoye (2023) | Illinois State Board of education
During the same period, Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School's 93 white students, who make up 74.4% of the school population, received 41 suspensions. This translates to an average of roughly one suspension per two white students, which is definitively lower than that of multiracial students, making them the best-behaved racial group in the school.
Of the 66 total suspensions at Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School in the 2021-22 school year, 54 were in-school suspensions and 12 out-of-school suspensions. Instead of opting for traditional suspensions or expulsions for some cases, the school administration decided to relocate one student to alternative educational settings.
According to the report, in the 2021-22 school year, two student suspensions at Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School were for violence-related offenses.
During the 2021-22 school year, Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School reported 25 students - equivalent to 20.1% of its student body - as chronically truant, meaning they had a repeated pattern of unexcused lateness or missing classes. In addition, 45 students, or 36% of the student population, fell into the chronically absent category, a broader measure that includes all absences, excused or not.
In a broader context, data from the ProPublica database indicates that Black students are suspended at a rate 4.6 times higher than white students in Illinois—surpassing the already high national average rate of 3.9 times.
However, districts’ officials deny a direct link between these statistics and race. Lisa Small, the Superintendent of District 211, argues that these numbers oversimplify the situation. “Decisions are highly individualized and based on the specific behavior and are not well-suited to a simple numerical analysis,” she wrote in a statement. “They are not a statistic to us, but a developing young adult.”
Illinois ranks 12th in the nation for the highest rate of suspensions among Black students relative to their white peers.
| Race | Number of Students | Total Infractions | Infractions Per Student |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 14 | 10 | 0.71 |
| Multiracial | 17 | 13 | 0.76 |
| White | 93 | 41 | 0.44 |
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