Bullying includes repeated, unwanted aggression from peers with a perceived or observed power imbalance; bullying can be physical, verbal, relational, or through electronic means, and bullying impacts about 20% of high school students in the United States. It is imperative that schools implement policies that make schools safer and prevent bullying. In Illinois, schools are required to educate students, parents, and school personnel on prohibited bullying behaviors, and to create, maintain, and implement a bullying prevention policy. Although Illinois has specific laws to address bullying, it is important to assess school compliance with those laws. This report examined bullying policies from a stratified random sample of 400 middle and high schools (representing Northern, Southern, and Central regions, as well as Cook County/Chicago). For each school, we coded the bullying policy content according to the Illinois State Board of Education policy requirements, and examined policy compliance (i.e., the entire bullying policy, with all required statute components included) in relation to rates of bullying. Of the 400 schools, 60% had the entire bullying policy, with all statute components, in their school or district handbook. School districts with incomplete or missing policies had significantly higher rates of verbal and cyber forms of bullying, and threats of bullying, compared to school districts with complete policies. Our findings highlighted the need for the Illinois State Board of Education to continue working with schools around bullying policy implementation and inclusion. Lastly, our study calls attention to the importance of schools having full policies within their school or district handbooks.