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District reports Manteno Community Unit School District 5 suspended or expelled students 194 times in a single school year

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Manteno Community Unit School District 5 reported 194 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 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 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.

Manteno Community Unit School District 5 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury10
Violence without injury84
Drug offenses31
Firearm00
Other dangerous weapons30
Tobacco40
Other reason1691
Total1886
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less280
1-2 days1340
2-3 days225
3-4 days31
4-10 days10
More than 10 days00

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