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District reports Schuyler-Industry Community Unit School District 5 suspended or expelled students 61 times in a single school year

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Schuyler-Industry Community Unit School District 5 reported 61 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 61 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 927 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, six 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 27. There were eight incidents of tobacco. For 17 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 46 suspensions, while 15 girls were suspended.

There were 40 elementary or middle school students, and 21 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 17. There were five incidents of violence without injury. For eight 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.

Schuyler-Industry Community Unit School District 5 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury01
Violence without injury15
Drug offenses01
Firearm00
Other dangerous weapons00
Tobacco81
Other reason2717
Total3625
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less21
1-2 days178
2-3 days36
3-4 days35
4-10 days115
More than 10 days00

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