Dupage Policy Journal

Elmhurst School District 205 reported 130 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 130 students during the year. This equates to two percent of the 8,164 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 11 incidents with violence without physical injury, 10 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, six incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 81. There were seven incidents of tobacco. For 82 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 116 suspensions, while 14 girls were suspended.

There were 45 elementary or middle school students, and 85 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 20. There were five incidents of violence without injury. For 10 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	2	0
Violence with injury	1	1
Violence without injury	6	5
Drug offenses	6	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	7	1
Other reason	81	20
Total	103	27

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	5	0
1-2 days	82	10
2-3 days	16	7
3-4 days	0	8
4-10 days	0	2
More than 10 days	0	0