Lake County Gazette

Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 reported 343 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 343 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 4,817 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 124 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 16 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 21 incidents with drugs, one incident witha dangerous weapon firearm,10 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 155. There were 99 incidents of violence with injury. For 203 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 240 suspensions, while 103 girls were suspended.

There were 343 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 25. There were 16 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 22 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	99	25
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	6	15
Firearm	0	1
Other dangerous weapons	5	5
Tobacco	14	2
Other reason	155	16
Total	279	64

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	24	0
1-2 days	203	13
2-3 days	34	12
3-4 days	15	17
4-10 days	3	22
More than 10 days	0	0