Illinois Valley Times

LaSalle-Peru Township High School District 120 reported 1,723 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 1723 students during the year. This equates to 142 percent of the 1,213 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 47 incidents with violence without physical injury, 35 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 34 incidents with drugs, three 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 1,488. There were 16 incidents of tobacco. For 1,090 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 1,246 suspensions, while 477 girls were suspended.

There were 1,723 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 115. There were 33 incidents of violence without injury. For 75 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	0	18
Violence with injury	0	1
Violence without injury	14	33
Drug offenses	2	32
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	3
Tobacco	16	1
Other reason	1488	115
Total	1520	203

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	413	0
1-2 days	1090	75
2-3 days	17	20
3-4 days	0	38
4-10 days	0	70
More than 10 days	0	0