Glenwood Intermediate School Principal Mrs. Elizabeth Gregurich (2023) | Glenwood Intermediate School
Glenwood Intermediate School Principal Mrs. Elizabeth Gregurich (2023) | Glenwood Intermediate School
During the same period, Glenwood Intermediate School's 583 white students, who make up 76.7% of the school population, received 23 suspensions. This translates to an average of roughly one suspension per 25 white students, which is definitively lower than that of Black students.
Multiracial students at Glenwood Intermediate School behaved worse than whites, but better than Blacks, with three suspensions for 61 students in the 2021-22 school year - an average of roughly one suspension per 20 multiracial students.
In contrast, Hispanic students, who make up 3.8% of the student body at Glenwood Intermediate School, had the lowest suspension ratio with an average of one suspension per 29 Hispanic students, totaling one suspension. This rate is definitively lower than that of Black students, establishing them as the best-behaved racial group in the school.
Of the 35 total suspensions at Glenwood Intermediate School in the 2021-22 school year, all of them were out-of-school suspensions.
According to the report, in the 2021-22 school year, 12 student suspensions at Glenwood Intermediate School were for violence-related offenses and four for those including drugs.
The most common infraction causing suspension was violence offenses, tallying 12 cases - 34.3% of the total infractions.
During the 2021-22 school year, Glenwood Intermediate School reported 35 students - equivalent to 4.6% of its student body - as chronically truant, meaning they had a repeated pattern of unexcused lateness or missing classes. In addition, 94 students, or 12.4% of the student population, fell into the chronically absent category, a broader measure that includes all absences, excused or not.
Black students were notably overrepresented in these statistics, comprising 26.2% of all students who were chronically truant, and 34.9% of the 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 | 29 | 1 | 0.03 |
| Black | 40 | 8 | 0.2 |
| Multiracial | 61 | 3 | 0.05 |
| White | 583 | 23 | 0.04 |
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