North Cook News

Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District 54 reported 164 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 164 students during the year. This equates to one percent of the 14,957 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 14 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, nine incidents with drugs, three 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 25. There were seven incidents of tobacco. For 19 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 135 suspensions, while 29 girls were suspended.

There were 164 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 111. There were nine incidents of drug offense. For 50 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	0	0
Violence with injury	0	2
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	0	9
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	3
Tobacco	7	7
Other reason	25	111
Total	32	132

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	3	1
1-2 days	19	50
2-3 days	10	47
3-4 days	0	20
4-10 days	0	14
More than 10 days	0	0