South Cook News

Matteson Elementary School District 162 reported 120 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 120 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 2,362 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco.

Boy students received 65 suspensions, while 55 girls were suspended.

There were 120 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 114. There were four incidents of violence with injury. For 51 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
Violence with injury		4
Violence without injury		0
Drug offenses		0
Firearm		0
Other dangerous weapons		0
Tobacco		2
Other reason		114
Total		120

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		29
2-3 days		51
3-4 days		26
4-10 days		14
More than 10 days		0