Lake County Gazette

Round Lake Community Unit School District 116 reported 1,650 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 1650 students during the year. This equates to 26 percent of the 6,287 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 53 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 51 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 127 incidents with drugs, 30 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 1,083. There were 79 incidents of drug offense. For 414 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 1,157 suspensions, while 493 girls were suspended.

There were 779 elementary or middle school students, and 871 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 306. There were 48 incidents of drug offense. For 179 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	3	4
Violence with injury	26	27
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	79	48
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	23	7
Tobacco	42	2
Other reason	1083	306
Total	1256	394

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	87	60
1-2 days	414	179
2-3 days	180	68
3-4 days	290	52
4-10 days	267	34
More than 10 days	18	1