Southern Illinois News

Anna Community Consolidated School District 37 reported 64 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 64 students during the year. This equates to 11 percent of the 568 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 18 incidents with violence without physical injury, eight incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 23. There were five incidents of violence without injury. For 30 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 51 suspensions, while 13 girls were suspended.

There were 64 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 13. There were 11 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 16 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	0
Violence without injury	5	13
Drug offenses	0	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	3	5
Other reason	23	11
Total	31	33

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	30	16
2-3 days	1	10
3-4 days	0	2
4-10 days	0	5
More than 10 days	0	0