Dupage Policy Journal

Queen Bee School District 16 reported 52 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 52 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 1,663 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 30 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, four incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, three incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 27. There were 10 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 38 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 35 suspensions, while 17 girls were suspended.

There were 52 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were three. There were three incidents of drug offense. For seven 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	27	3
Violence without injury	3	1
Drug offenses	0	3
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	3	0
Other reason	10	2
Total	43	9

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	38	1
2-3 days	5	7
3-4 days	0	0
4-10 days	0	0
More than 10 days	0	1