Students suspended or expelled 298 times just in 2023-24 school year in Plainfield North High School

Plainfield North High School reported 297 suspensions and an expulsion just during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.

In total, there were 301 disciplinary actions recorded during the school year, of which 298 were suspensions or expulsions, representing a rate of approximately 12.9 incidents per 100 of the school's enrolled students. There were an additional three cases of students being removed to alternative settings rather than being suspended or expelled.

The expulsion was issued for an incident involving drugs.

The school reported that most in-school suspensions were given for incidents involving violence without physical injury, with 13 recorded cases. There were also eight incidents involving drugs. Additionally, 226 cases were classified under "other reason" or left unspecified.

There were 224 disciplinary incidents involving male students. Another 74 incidents involved female students.

All 297 suspensions issued in the Plainfield North High School schools involved high school students.

Out-of-school suspensions most commonly were for incidents involving drugs, with four cases reported. Additionally, 25 cases were classified under the "other reason" category.

In terms of ethnicity, white students, which made up 61.7% of the Plainfield North High School student body, were suspended or expelled the most in the school, with 145 suspensions and one expulsion reported during the 2023-24 school year. They were followed by Hispanic students, who made up 16.1% of the student body, and received 88 suspensions.

Plainfield North High School is located in the Plainfield School District 202, and has a main office in Plainfield.

Illinois allocated $8.6 billion to K-12 education in its 2025 budget—a $350 million increase over FY 2024, meeting the minimum required under the state’s school funding formula.

In 2024, Illinois registered a teacher retention rate of almost 90%. Yet, around 91% of superintendents reported having a 'serious' problem teacher shortage problem. In total, almost 4,100 teaching positions remained vacant by the end of the year.

“They’re putting a substitute in there, that’s somebody with a four-year degree that’s not in teaching. They’re using a retired teacher…or worse than that, they’re canceling the class, putting the kids in other classrooms, putting them in study hall, but those are strategies we have to use if there’s no qualified teacher,” said Beth Crider, regional superintendent of Peoria County Regional Office of Education #48.