Southern Illinois News

Vienna School District 55 reported 20 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 20 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 384 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for six incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury, four 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 four. There were two incidents of violence with injury. For seven incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 15 suspensions, while five girls were suspended.

There were 20 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were four. There were four incidents of tobacco. 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	2	4
Violence without injury	1	1
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	4
Other reason	4	3
Total	7	13

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