Carbondale Reporter

Carbondale Elementary School District 95 reported 432 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The district removed one student to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 1,513 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 12 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, five incidents with alcohol and tobacco, two incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 190. There were three incidents of violence with injury. For 103 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 281 suspensions, while 150 girls were suspended.

There were 432 elementary or middle 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 223. There were nine incidents of violence with injury. For 81 incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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	3	9
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	0	2
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	3	2
Other reason	190	223
Total	196	236

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	7
1-2 days	103	40
2-3 days	58	79
3-4 days	24	81
4-10 days	7	26
More than 10 days	2	3