North Cook News

Township High School District 211 reported 1,458 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 1458 students during the year. This equates to 12 percent of the 11,981 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 98 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 101 incidents with violence without physical injury, 48 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 189 incidents with drugs, two incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,14 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 646. There were 83 incidents of drug offense. For 680 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 891 suspensions, while 520 girls were suspended.

There were 1,458 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 360. There were 106 incidents of drug offense. For 274 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	4	11
Violence with injury	13	85
Violence without injury	27	74
Drug offenses	83	106
Firearm	0	2
Other dangerous weapons	1	13
Tobacco	28	5
Other reason	646	360
Total	802	656

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	41	15
1-2 days	680	274
2-3 days	71	181
3-4 days	5	111
4-10 days	5	74
More than 10 days	0	1