According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 30 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 993 students enrolled.
Students were expelled for five incidents with violence that caused physical injury, five 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 19. There were five incidents of violence with injury. For 17 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.
Boy students received 15 suspensions, while 15 girls were suspended.
There were nine elementary or middle school students, and 21 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.
The district reported that most out-of-school suspension was given for drug offense, of which there was one. For one incident, student was suspended for four to 10 days.
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 | 1 | 0 |
| Violence with injury | 5 | 0 |
| Violence without injury | 0 | 0 |
| Drug offenses | 0 | 1 |
| Firearm | 0 | 0 |
| Other dangerous weapons | 0 | 0 |
| Tobacco | 4 | 0 |
| Other reason | 19 | 0 |
| Total | 29 | 1 |
| In-school Suspension | Out-of-school Suspension | |
|---|---|---|
| One day or less | 0 | 0 |
| 1-2 days | 17 | 0 |
| 2-3 days | 2 | 0 |
| 3-4 days | 9 | 0 |
| 4-10 days | 1 | 1 |
| More than 10 days | 0 | 0 |
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