Metro East Sun

Freeburg Community Consolidated School District 70 reported 35 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 35 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 777 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for eight incidents with violence that caused physical injury, three incidents with violence without physical injury, five incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident 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 nine. There was one incident of tobacco. For five incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 29 suspensions, while six girls were suspended.

There were 35 elementary or middle 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 nine. There were eight incidents of violence with injury. For 12 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.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	0
Violence with injury	0	8
Violence without injury	0	3
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	1	4
Other reason	9	9
Total	10	25

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	5	6
2-3 days	5	12
3-4 days	0	5
4-10 days	0	2
More than 10 days	0	0