Chambana Sun

Hoopeston Area Community Unit School District 11 reported 105 suspensions or expulsions for the 2020-2021 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 105 students during the year. This equates to 10 percent of the 1,099 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with alcohol and tobacco, six incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 60. There were two incidents of drug offense. For 30 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 76 suspensions, while 29 girls were suspended.

There were 81 elementary or middle school students, and 24 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 38. There were four incidents of drug offense. For 22 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	0	0
Drug offenses	2	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	1
Other reason	60	38
Total	62	43

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	29	2
1-2 days	30	22
2-3 days	3	8
3-4 days	0	7
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0