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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Students suspended or expelled 21 times in a single school year in South Central Community Unit School District 401

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South Central Community Unit School District 401 reported 21 suspensions or expulsions for the 2020-2021 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The district removed one student to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 636 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for nine incidents with violence without physical injury, eight incidents with alcohol and tobacco.

Boy students received 17 suspensions, while four girls were suspended.

There were 11 elementary or middle school students, and 10 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were nine. There were eight incidents of tobacco. For 11 incidents, students were suspended for two to three 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.

South Central Community Unit School District 401 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol0
Violence with injury0
Violence without injury9
Drug offenses0
Firearm0
Other dangerous weapons0
Tobacco8
Other reason4
Total21
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less1
1-2 days9
2-3 days11
3-4 days0
4-10 days0
More than 10 days0

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