North Cook News

Township High School District 214 reported 639 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 639 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 11,907 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 298 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 28 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 144 incidents with drugs, 12 incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 96. There were 83 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 184 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 447 suspensions, while 138 girls were suspended.

There were 639 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 202. There were 94 incidents of drug offense. For 173 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	9	17
Violence with injury	96	202
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	50	94
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	11
Tobacco	2	0
Other reason	83	74
Total	241	398

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	0
1-2 days	184	173
2-3 days	51	114
3-4 days	4	59
4-10 days	0	52
More than 10 days	0	0