West Cook News

Leyden Community High School District 212 reported 1,389 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 1389 students during the year. This equates to 41 percent of the 3,392 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 77 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 42 incidents with violence without physical injury, 28 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 251 incidents with drugs, six incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,15 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 814. There were 112 incidents of drug offense. For 949 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 912 suspensions, while 477 girls were suspended.

There were 1,389 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 156. There were 139 incidents of drug offense. For 158 incidents, students were suspended for two to three 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	4	4
Violence with injury	36	41
Violence without injury	20	22
Drug offenses	112	139
Firearm	2	4
Other dangerous weapons	6	9
Tobacco	14	6
Other reason	814	156
Total	1008	381

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	949	124
2-3 days	55	158
3-4 days	4	53
4-10 days	0	46
More than 10 days	0	0