Will County Gazette

Summit Hill School District 161 reported 138 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 138 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 2,536 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 31 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 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 98. There were 31 incidents of violence without injury. For 62 incidents, students were suspended for a day or less.

Boy students received 107 suspensions, while 31 girls were suspended.

There were 138 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 three. For one incident, student was 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	0	0
Violence with injury	2	0
Violence without injury	31	0
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	0
Tobacco	3	0
Other reason	98	3
Total	135	3

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	62	0
1-2 days	61	1
2-3 days	11	0
3-4 days	0	1
4-10 days	1	1
More than 10 days	0	0