Metro East Sun

Roxana Community Unit School District 1 reported 250 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 1,727 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 38 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 10 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 105. There were 16 incidents of violence without injury. For 45 incidents, students were suspended for three to four days.

Boy students received 178 suspensions, while 72 girls were suspended.

There were 146 elementary or middle school students, and 104 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 88. There were 22 incidents of violence without injury. For 41 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	1	3
Violence without injury	16	22
Drug offenses	3	7
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	3
Tobacco	2	0
Other reason	105	88
Total	127	123

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	4	8
1-2 days	18	36
2-3 days	41	24
3-4 days	45	14
4-10 days	19	41
More than 10 days	0	0