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Students at Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 suspended or expelled 23 times in a single school year

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Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 reported 23 suspensions or expulsions for the 2020-2021 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 23 students during the year. This equates to less than one percent of the 4,653 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 12 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, three incidents with drugs.

Boy students received 15 suspensions, while eight girls were suspended.

There were 21 elementary or middle school students, and two high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 12. There were five incidents of unspecified reasons. For 11 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.

Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol0
Violence with injury1
Violence without injury12
Drug offenses3
Firearm0
Other dangerous weapons0
Tobacco2
Other reason5
Total23
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less0
1-2 days11
2-3 days7
3-4 days2
4-10 days3
More than 10 days0

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