Lake County Gazette

Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125 reported 366 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 366 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 4,352 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 44 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 41 incidents with drugs, four 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 256. There were 24 incidents of tobacco. For 188 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 214 suspensions, while 152 girls were suspended.

There were 366 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 21. There were 18 incidents of drug offense. For 35 incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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	10
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	23	18
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	3
Tobacco	24	1
Other reason	256	21
Total	313	53

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	188	3
2-3 days	58	4
3-4 days	59	35
4-10 days	8	11
More than 10 days	0	0