South Cook News

Community High School District 218 reported 871 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The district removed six students to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 5,341 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 375 incidents with violence without physical injury, 84 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 176 incidents with drugs, one incident witha dangerous weapon firearm,34 incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 77. There were 68 incidents of tobacco. For 199 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 502 suspensions, while 313 girls were suspended.

There were 871 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 324. There were 124 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 251 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	1	3
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	51	324
Drug offenses	62	114
Firearm	0	1
Other dangerous weapons	1	33
Tobacco	68	12
Other reason	77	124
Total	260	611

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	199	121
2-3 days	57	87
3-4 days	3	151
4-10 days	1	251
More than 10 days	0	1