Chicago City Wire

Chicago Public School District 299 reported 15,985 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 15985 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 327,338 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 3,149 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 4,911 incidents with violence without physical injury, 1,884 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 211 incidents with drugs, 192 incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,281 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 2,626. There were 2,086 incidents of violence without injury. For 4,595 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 9,665 suspensions, while 6,275 girls were suspended.

There were 6,010 elementary or middle school students, and 9,975 high 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 2,825. There were 2,779 incidents of violence with injury. For 3,395 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	693	1180
Violence with injury	370	2779
Violence without injury	2086	2825
Drug offenses	49	162
Firearm	36	156
Other dangerous weapons	110	171
Tobacco	4	7
Other reason	2626	2731
Total	5974	10011

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	9	0
1-2 days	4595	3307
2-3 days	1046	3395
3-4 days	317	2460
4-10 days	7	849
More than 10 days	0	0