West Central Reporter

Winchester Community Unit School District 1 reported 87 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 87 students during the year. This equates to 15 percent of the 585 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 24 incidents with violence without physical injury, nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 31. There were 19 incidents of violence without injury. For 51 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 72 suspensions, while 15 girls were suspended.

There were 42 elementary or middle school students, and 45 high 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 20. There were five incidents of violence without injury. For 14 incidents, students were suspended for one to two 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	2
Violence without injury	19	5
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	4	5
Other reason	31	20
Total	54	33

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	1
1-2 days	51	14
2-3 days	3	3
3-4 days	0	10
4-10 days	0	5
More than 10 days	0	0