North Cook News

East Maine School District 63 reported 58 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 58 students during the year. This equates to two percent of the 3,458 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 32 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 21. There were 10 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 15 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 46 suspensions, while 12 girls were suspended.

There were 58 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 11. There were seven incidents of unspecified reasons. For 11 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	1
Violence with injury	2	0
Violence without injury	21	11
Drug offenses	0	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	2
Other reason	10	7
Total	33	25

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	14	1
1-2 days	15	11
2-3 days	4	6
3-4 days	0	5
4-10 days	0	2
More than 10 days	0	0