South Central Reporter

Central Community High School District 71 reported 89 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 89 students during the year. This equates to 14 percent of the 616 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 19 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 66. There were 15 incidents of tobacco. For 66 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 43 suspensions, while 46 girls were suspended.

There were 89 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for tobacco, of which there were four. There were three incidents of drug offense. For six incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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	0	0
Drug offenses	1	3
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	15	4
Other reason	66	0
Total	82	7

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	66	0
2-3 days	2	0
3-4 days	14	6
4-10 days	0	1
More than 10 days	0	0