Metro East Sun

Belleville Township High School District 201 reported 510 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 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 4,773 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 50 incidents with drugs.

Boy students received 272 suspensions, while 238 girls were suspended.

There were 510 high 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 456. There were 50 incidents of drug offense. For 215 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		4
Violence with injury		0
Violence without injury		0
Drug offenses		50
Firearm		0
Other dangerous weapons		0
Tobacco		0
Other reason		456
Total		510

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		70
2-3 days		102
3-4 days		123
4-10 days		215
More than 10 days		0