McHenry Times

Community High School District 155 reported 958 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 958 students during the year. This equates to 17 percent of the 5,583 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for seven incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 69 incidents with violence without physical injury, 43 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 112 incidents with drugs, 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 579. There were 46 incidents of drug offense. For 391 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 659 suspensions, while 298 girls were suspended.

There were 958 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 138. There were 66 incidents of drug offense. For 83 incidents, students were suspended for one to two 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	5	6
Violence with injury	2	5
Violence without injury	27	42
Drug offenses	46	66
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	10
Tobacco	12	20
Other reason	579	138
Total	671	287

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	7	2
1-2 days	391	83
2-3 days	205	58
3-4 days	63	74
4-10 days	5	70
More than 10 days	0	0