Sangamon Sun

Tri-City Community Unit School District 1 reported 27 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 27 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 590 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for nine incidents with violence without physical injury, seven incidents with alcohol and tobacco.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were three. There were two incidents of unspecified reasons. For three incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 21 suspensions, while six girls were suspended.

There were 14 elementary or middle school students, and 13 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 nine. There were six incidents of violence without injury. For nine 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	0	0
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	3	6
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	1	6
Other reason	2	9
Total	6	21

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	0
1-2 days	3	9
2-3 days	1	5
3-4 days	0	5
4-10 days	0	2
More than 10 days	0	0