South Cook News

Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School District 233 reported 729 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 729 students during the year. This equates to 27 percent of the 2,720 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 10 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 101 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 61 incidents with drugs, 19 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 384. There were two incidents of violence without injury. For 290 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 466 suspensions, while 263 girls were suspended.

There were 729 high 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 152. There were 99 incidents of violence without injury. For 122 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	10
Violence without injury	2	99
Drug offenses	0	61
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	19
Tobacco	2	0
Other reason	384	152
Total	388	341

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	290	85
2-3 days	98	42
3-4 days	0	92
4-10 days	0	122
More than 10 days	0	0