The district removed one student to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 514 students enrolled.
Students were expelled for 10 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs.
Boy students received 20 suspensions, while five girls were suspended.
There were 25 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.
The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 12. There were 10 incidents of violence without injury. For 12 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 | 2 | |
Violence with injury | 0 | |
Violence without injury | 10 | |
Drug offenses | 1 | |
Firearm | 0 | |
Other dangerous weapons | 0 | |
Tobacco | 0 | |
Other reason | 12 | |
Total | 25 |
In-school Suspension | Out-of-school Suspension | |
---|---|---|
One day or less | 0 | |
1-2 days | 1 | |
2-3 days | 12 | |
3-4 days | 6 | |
4-10 days | 6 | |
More than 10 days | 0 |