Kelvin Grove Junior High School reports 37 incidents of students being suspended just in 2023-24 school year

Kelvin Grove Junior High School reported 37 suspensions just during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.

In total, there were 37 disciplinary actions recorded during the school year, representing a rate of approximately 12.8 incidents per 100 of the school's enrolled students.

The school reported that all in-school suspensions were given for incidents involving violence without physical injury, with two recorded cases. Additionally, 20 cases were classified under "other reason" or left unspecified.

There were 31 disciplinary incidents involving male students. Another six incidents involved female students.

All 37 suspensions issued in the Kelvin Grove Junior High School schools involved elementary or middle school students.

Out-of-school suspensions most commonly were for incidents involving violence without physical injury, with six cases reported. Additionally, nine cases were classified under the "other reason" category.

In terms of ethnicity, white students, which made up 69.9% of the Kelvin Grove Junior High School student body, were suspended the most in the school, with 18 suspensions reported during the 2023-24 school year. They were followed by Hispanic students, who made up 21.8% of the student body, and received five suspensions.

Kelvin Grove Junior High School is located in the Lockport School District 91, and has a main office in Lockport.

Illinois allocated $8.6 billion to K-12 education in its 2025 budget—a $350 million increase over FY 2024, meeting the minimum required under the state’s school funding formula.

In 2024, Illinois registered a teacher retention rate of almost 90%. Yet, around 91% of superintendents reported having a 'serious' problem teacher shortage problem. In total, almost 4,100 teaching positions remained vacant by the end of the year.

“They’re putting a substitute in there, that’s somebody with a four-year degree that’s not in teaching. They’re using a retired teacher…or worse than that, they’re canceling the class, putting the kids in other classrooms, putting them in study hall, but those are strategies we have to use if there’s no qualified teacher,” said Beth Crider, regional superintendent of Peoria County Regional Office of Education #48.