South Cook News

North Palos School District 117 reported 243 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 243 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 3,360 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 98 incidents with violence without physical injury, 12 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs, one incident witha dangerous weapon firearm,three 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 83. There were 23 incidents of violence without injury. For 103 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 192 suspensions, while 51 girls were suspended.

There were 243 elementary or middle 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 75. There were 44 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 75 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	1	0
Violence without injury	23	75
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	1
Other dangerous weapons	2	1
Tobacco	1	11
Other reason	83	44
Total	110	133

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	1
1-2 days	103	75
2-3 days	7	36
3-4 days	0	10
4-10 days	0	11
More than 10 days	0	0