Lake County Gazette

North Chicago School District 187 reported 267 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 267 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 3,340 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 14 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 49 incidents with violence without physical injury, 16 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 30 incidents with drugs, six incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 11. There were seven incidents of unspecified reasons. For 14 incidents, students were suspended for two to three days.

Boy students received 132 suspensions, while 135 girls were suspended.

There were 241 elementary or middle school students, and 26 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 145. There were 38 incidents of violence without injury. For 92 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	6
Violence with injury	5	9
Violence without injury	11	38
Drug offenses	4	26
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	6
Tobacco	0	10
Other reason	7	145
Total	27	240

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	2
1-2 days	13	92
2-3 days	14	67
3-4 days	0	43
4-10 days	0	35
More than 10 days	0	1