Metro East Sun

East Alton-Wood River Community High School District 14 reported 238 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 12 students to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to two percent of the 561 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for five incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury, 25 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, two incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 198. There were 25 incidents of tobacco. For 160 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 131 suspensions, while 107 girls were suspended.

There were 238 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 six. There were five incidents of violence with injury. For four 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	0	0
Violence with injury	0	5
Violence without injury	2	0
Drug offenses	0	2
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	25	0
Other reason	198	6
Total	225	13

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	160	4
2-3 days	64	3
3-4 days	0	2
4-10 days	1	4
More than 10 days	0	0