IL Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders (2023) | Illinois State Board of education
IL Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders (2023) | Illinois State Board of education
During the same period, Carlinville High School's 377 white students, who make up 92.6% of the school population, received 46 suspensions. This translates to an average of roughly one suspension per eight white students, which is definitively lower than that of multiracial students.
In contrast, Hispanic students, who make up 2.7% of the student body at Carlinville High School, had the lowest suspension ratio with an average of one suspension per 11 Hispanic students, totaling one suspension. This rate is definitively lower than that of multiracial students, establishing them as the best-behaved racial group in the school.
Of the 57 total suspensions at Carlinville High School in the 2021-22 school year, 28 were in-school suspensions and 29 out-of-school suspensions.
According to the report, in the 2021-22 school year, 19 student suspensions at Carlinville High School were for violence-related offenses and four for those including drugs.
The most common infraction causing suspension was violence offenses, tallying 19 cases - 33.3% of the total infractions.
During the 2021-22 school year, Carlinville High School reported 43 students - equivalent to 10.6% of its student body - as chronically truant, meaning they had a repeated pattern of unexcused lateness or missing classes. In addition, 133 students, or 32.7% of the student population, fell into the chronically absent category, a broader measure that includes all absences, excused or not.
Multiracial students were notably overrepresented in these statistics, comprising 63.2% of all students who were chronically absent.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hispanic | 11 | 1 | 0.09 |
| Multiracial | 14 | 9 | 0.64 |
| White | 377 | 46 | 0.12 |
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