West Central Reporter

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.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	0
Violence with injury	0	1
Violence without injury	1	5
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	8	1
Other reason	27	17
Total	36	25

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	1
1-2 days	17	8
2-3 days	3	6
3-4 days	3	5
4-10 days	11	5
More than 10 days	0	0