West Central Reporter

A-C Central Community Unit School District 262 reported 35 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 35 students during the year. This equates to 10 percent of the 358 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 19 incidents with violence without physical injury, one incident with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were nine. There were five incidents of unspecified reasons. For 10 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 35 suspensions.

There were 21 elementary or middle school students, and 14 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 10. There were five incidents of unspecified reasons. For 14 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	0	1
Violence without injury	9	10
Drug offenses	0	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	1	0
Other reason	5	5
Total	15	20

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	0
1-2 days	10	1
2-3 days	2	1
3-4 days	1	14
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0