South Central Reporter

Salem Community High School District 600 reported 284 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 284 students during the year. This equates to 41 percent of the 691 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 41 incidents with violence without physical injury, 37 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 14 incidents with drugs, three incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 164. There were 36 incidents of tobacco. For 203 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 206 suspensions, while 78 girls were suspended.

There were 284 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 33. There were 25 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 36 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	0
Violence without injury	8	33
Drug offenses	0	14
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	3
Tobacco	36	1
Other reason	164	25
Total	208	76

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	0
1-2 days	203	9
2-3 days	3	7
3-4 days	1	24
4-10 days	0	36
More than 10 days	0	0