Glenwood High School Principal Mr. Ryan Green (2023) | Glenwood High School
Glenwood High School Principal Mr. Ryan Green (2023) | Glenwood High School
During the same period, Glenwood High School's 1,136 white students, who make up 77.2% of the school population, received 41 suspensions. This translates to an average of roughly one suspension per 28 white students, which is definitively lower than that of multiracial students.
Black students at Glenwood High School behaved worse than whites, but better than multiracials, with 11 suspensions for 87 students in the 2021-22 school year - an average of roughly one suspension per eight Black students.
In contrast, Hispanic students, who make up 4.8% of the student body at Glenwood High School, had the lowest suspension ratio with an average of one suspension per 71 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 71 total suspensions at Glenwood High 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, 24 student suspensions at Glenwood High School were for violence-related offenses and 12 for those including drugs.
The most common infraction causing suspension was violence offenses, tallying 24 cases - 33.8% of the total infractions.
During the 2021-22 school year, Glenwood High School reported 156 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, 434 students, or 29.5% 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 18.8% of all students who were chronically truant, and 40.2% 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 | 71 | 1 | 0.01 |
| Black | 87 | 11 | 0.13 |
| Multiracial | 101 | 18 | 0.18 |
| White | 1,136 | 41 | 0.04 |
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