West Cook News

Proviso Township High School District 209 reported 473 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 473 students during the year. This equates to 11 percent of the 4,415 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 200 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, nine incidents with violence without physical injury, six incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 43 incidents with drugs, one incident 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 34. There were nine incidents of drug offense. For 20 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 288 suspensions, while 185 girls were suspended.

There were 473 high 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 197. There were 180 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 160 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	3	197
Violence without injury	3	6
Drug offenses	9	34
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	0
Tobacco	0	6
Other reason	34	180
Total	50	423

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	18	19
1-2 days	20	84
2-3 days	11	63
3-4 days	0	97
4-10 days	1	160
More than 10 days	0	0