Egyptian Senior High School Principal Carie Arbuckle (2023) | Egyptian Senior High School
Egyptian Senior High School Principal Carie Arbuckle (2023) | Egyptian Senior High School
During the same period, Egyptian Senior High School's 91 white students, who make up 84.3% of the school population, received 67 suspensions.
Of the 90 total suspensions at Egyptian Senior High School in the 2021-22 school year, 85 were in-school suspensions and five out-of-school suspensions.
According to the report, in the 2021-22 school year, four student suspensions at Egyptian Senior High School were for violence-related offenses.
During the 2021-22 school year, Egyptian Senior High School reported 15 students - equivalent to 13.7% of its student body - as chronically truant, meaning they had a repeated pattern of unexcused lateness or missing classes. In addition, 26 students, or 24.4% 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 | 8 | 0.57 |
| White | 91 | 67 | 0.74 |
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