West Cook News

Mannheim School District 83 reported 129 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 129 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 2,409 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, five 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 88. There were three incidents of tobacco. For 68 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 91 suspensions, while 38 girls were suspended.

There were 129 elementary or middle 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 28. There were four incidents of violence without injury. For 16 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	0	0
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	0	4
Drug offenses	1	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	3	0
Other reason	88	28
Total	92	37

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	22	0
1-2 days	68	10
2-3 days	2	16
3-4 days	0	6
4-10 days	0	5
More than 10 days	0	0