South Cook News

Palos Community Consolidated School District 118 reported 71 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 71 students during the year. This equates to four percent of the 2,017 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for six 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 52. There were three incidents of tobacco. For 38 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 62 suspensions, while nine girls were suspended.

There were 71 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 11. There were three incidents of tobacco. For five 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	0	0
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	0	2
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	3	3
Other reason	52	11
Total	55	16

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	11	0
1-2 days	38	4
2-3 days	6	5
3-4 days	0	3
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0