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District reports Mendota Township High School District 280 suspended or expelled students 25 times in a single school year

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Mendota Township High School District 280 reported 25 suspensions or expulsions for the 2020-2021 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 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 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.

Mendota Township High School District 280 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol2
Violence with injury0
Violence without injury10
Drug offenses1
Firearm0
Other dangerous weapons0
Tobacco0
Other reason12
Total25
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less0
1-2 days1
2-3 days12
3-4 days6
4-10 days6
More than 10 days0

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