Dupage Policy Journal

Lisle Community Unit School District 202 reported 164 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 164 students during the year. This equates to 11 percent of the 1,434 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for nine incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 22 incidents with violence without physical injury, 11 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 25 incidents with drugs, two incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,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 72. There were 14 incidents of violence without injury. For 80 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 123 suspensions, while 41 girls were suspended.

There were 50 elementary or middle school students, and 114 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 22. There were 12 incidents of drug offense. For 26 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	1	0
Violence with injury	6	3
Violence without injury	14	8
Drug offenses	13	12
Firearm	0	2
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	7	3
Other reason	72	22
Total	113	51

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	10	1
1-2 days	80	26
2-3 days	9	9
3-4 days	10	5
4-10 days	4	10
More than 10 days	0	0