Metro East Sun

O'Fallon Community Consolidated School District 90 reported 283 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 283 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 3,799 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 12 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, three incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,four 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 236. There were three incidents of alcohol. For 197 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 211 suspensions, while 72 girls were suspended.

There were 283 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 28. There were five incidents of tobacco. For 14 incidents, students were suspended for one to two 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	3	2
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	1	2
Other dangerous weapons	0	4
Tobacco	2	5
Other reason	236	28
Total	242	41

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	8	1
1-2 days	197	14
2-3 days	32	12
3-4 days	4	11
4-10 days	1	3
More than 10 days	0	0