South Cook News

Orland School District 135 reported 155 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 155 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 5,149 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for seven incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 12 incidents with violence without physical injury, seven incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 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 87. There were five incidents of tobacco. For 70 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 127 suspensions, while 28 girls were suspended.

There were 155 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 39. There were 12 incidents of violence without injury. For 38 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	0	7
Violence without injury	0	12
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	3
Tobacco	5	2
Other reason	87	39
Total	92	63

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	19	5
1-2 days	70	38
2-3 days	3	6
3-4 days	0	6
4-10 days	0	8
More than 10 days	0	0