South Cook News

Dolton School District 148 reported 407 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 407 students during the year. This equates to 21 percent of the 1,894 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 20 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 10 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, three incidents with drugs, five 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 305. There were nine incidents of violence with injury. For 206 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 240 suspensions, while 167 girls were suspended.

There were 407 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 62. There were 11 incidents of violence with injury. For 32 incidents, students were suspended for two to three 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	9	11
Violence without injury	3	7
Drug offenses	0	3
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	4
Tobacco	2	0
Other reason	305	62
Total	320	87

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	15	0
1-2 days	206	28
2-3 days	54	32
3-4 days	34	12
4-10 days	11	15
More than 10 days	0	0