South Cook News

Chicago Ridge School District 127-5 reported 91 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 91 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 1,375 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for three incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 35 incidents with violence without physical injury, four incidents with alcohol and tobacco, two incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 35. There were 28 incidents of violence without injury. For 59 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 76 suspensions, while 15 girls were suspended.

There were 91 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 12. There were seven incidents of violence without injury. For 11 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Illinois ranks as the 5th state in terms of the overall number of schools and student enrollment among all states.

Illinois lawmakers enacted laws in 2015 to restrict schools from disciplining a disproportionate number of Black and minority students out of school and into the criminal justice system, often for minor misbehavior.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	0
Violence with injury	2	1
Violence without injury	28	7
Drug offenses	1	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	4	0
Other reason	35	12
Total	70	21

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	5	0
1-2 days	59	11
2-3 days	6	4
3-4 days	0	5
4-10 days	0	1
More than 10 days	0	0