South Cook News

Calumet City School District 155 reported 516 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 516 students during the year. This equates to 54 percent of the 958 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for seven incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 14 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with drugs, two 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 419. For 419 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 327 suspensions, while 189 girls were suspended.

There were 516 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 71. There were 14 incidents of violence without injury. For 32 incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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	14
Drug offenses	0	3
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	2
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	419	71
Total	419	97

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	419	29
2-3 days	0	5
3-4 days	0	32
4-10 days	0	31
More than 10 days	0	0