According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 33 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 1,054 students enrolled.
Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, one incident with violence without physical injury, nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs.
The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 17. There were eight incidents of tobacco. For 17 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.
Boy students received 17 suspensions, while 16 girls were suspended.
There were 10 elementary or middle school students, and 23 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.
The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were two. There was one incident of violence without injury. For two 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 | 1 | 0 |
Violence with injury | 0 | 2 |
Violence without injury | 0 | 1 |
Drug offenses | 4 | 0 |
Firearm | 0 | 0 |
Other dangerous weapons | 0 | 0 |
Tobacco | 8 | 0 |
Other reason | 17 | 0 |
Total | 30 | 3 |
In-school Suspension | Out-of-school Suspension | |
---|---|---|
One day or less | 4 | 0 |
1-2 days | 17 | 1 |
2-3 days | 6 | 2 |
3-4 days | 2 | 0 |
4-10 days | 1 | 0 |
More than 10 days | 0 | 0 |