Southern Illinois News

Century Community Unit School District 100 reported 14 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 14 students during the year. This equates to four percent of the 347 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for three incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were six. There were three incidents of violence with injury. For seven incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 13 suspensions, while one girl was suspended.

There were eight elementary or middle school students, and six high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspension was given for violence without injury, of which there was one. For one incident, student was suspended for three to four 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	3	0
Violence without injury	1	1
Drug offenses	1	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	2	0
Other reason	6	0
Total	13	1

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	7	0
2-3 days	4	0
3-4 days	2	1
4-10 days	0	0
More than 10 days	0	0