Lake County Gazette

Diamond Lake School District 76 reported 110 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 110 students during the year. This equates to 13 percent of the 860 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for seven incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 41 incidents with violence without physical injury, one incident 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 33. There were 16 incidents of violence without injury. For 47 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 90 suspensions, while 20 girls were suspended.

There were 110 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 25. There were 16 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 28 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	2	5
Violence without injury	16	25
Drug offenses	1	8
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	3
Tobacco	1	0
Other reason	33	16
Total	53	57

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	3	1
1-2 days	47	28
2-3 days	3	13
3-4 days	0	11
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0