According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 11 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 369 students enrolled.
Students were expelled for five incidents with violence without physical injury, four incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.
The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were five. There were four incidents of tobacco. For seven incidents, students were suspended for two to three days.
Boy students received nine suspensions, while two girls were suspended.
There were 10 elementary or middle school students, and one high school student suspended in 2020-2021 school year.
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 | |
Violence with injury | 0 | |
Violence without injury | 5 | |
Drug offenses | 0 | |
Firearm | 0 | |
Other dangerous weapons | 1 | |
Tobacco | 4 | |
Other reason | 1 | |
Total | 11 |
In-school Suspension | Out-of-school Suspension | |
---|---|---|
One day or less | 0 | |
1-2 days | 3 | |
2-3 days | 7 | |
3-4 days | 1 | |
4-10 days | 0 | |
More than 10 days | 0 |