Southern Illinois News

Cairo Unit School District 1 reported 65 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 65 students during the year. This equates to 24 percent of the 271 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with alcohol and tobacco.

Boy students received 33 suspensions, while 32 girls were suspended.

There were 23 elementary or middle school students, and 42 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 64. There was one incident of alcohol. For 27 incidents, students were 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		1
Violence with injury		0
Violence without injury		0
Drug offenses		0
Firearm		0
Other dangerous weapons		0
Tobacco		0
Other reason		64
Total		65

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		8
2-3 days		19
3-4 days		27
4-10 days		11
More than 10 days		0