According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 194 students during the year. This equates to 10 percent of the 1,858 students enrolled.
Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 12 incidents with violence without physical injury, four incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs, three incidents 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 169. There were eight incidents of violence without injury. For 134 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.
Boy students received 118 suspensions, while 76 girls were suspended.
There were 34 elementary or middle school students, and 160 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 four. There was one incident of drug offense. For five incidents, students were suspended for two to three days.
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 | 1 | 0 |
Violence without injury | 8 | 4 |
Drug offenses | 3 | 1 |
Firearm | 0 | 0 |
Other dangerous weapons | 3 | 0 |
Tobacco | 4 | 0 |
Other reason | 169 | 1 |
Total | 188 | 6 |
In-school Suspension | Out-of-school Suspension | |
---|---|---|
One day or less | 28 | 0 |
1-2 days | 134 | 0 |
2-3 days | 22 | 5 |
3-4 days | 3 | 1 |
4-10 days | 1 | 0 |
More than 10 days | 0 | 0 |