The student’s mother, Sher’Ron Hinton, sued Chicago Public Schools in July 2025, alleging school staff acted negligently and allowed her daughter to face race-based bullying, sexual harassment and sexual abuse. The settlement approval comes more than a year after public reporting examined the school’s handling of the incidents. CPS officials did not immediately comment Thursday.

School incident reports and educators’ emails documented repeated racial slurs, body-shaming, taunts encouraging the student to kill herself and an incident in which she said someone touched her where she did not want to be touched. The girl, identified publicly by the pseudonym Jada, told school employees four times during fifth grade that she was having suicidal thoughts.

Hinton said she learned the extent of the reported incidents after her daughter came home in October 2024 and told her a student had used a racial slur. The district’s Office of Student Protection later substantiated that Jada was subjected to racial bullying; the students involved received in-school suspensions.

The experience left Jada in severe emotional distress, her mother said. She took time away from school in the spring for intensive mental health treatment. Hinton transferred Jada and her four siblings out of Wildwood after the school year ended in June 2025. Hinton declined to comment Thursday.

In a 2025 statement, CPS said school leadership had monitored and supported the students involved over the preceding two years, while cautioning that school documents do not capture every effort or communication with a family. Some parents of students accused by Jada said their children denied the allegations.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit over the district’s response to a student’s safety and well-being at school. The board’s vote follows records showing repeated reports of harm and the family’s efforts to secure help.