Chambana Sun

Danville Community Consolidated School District 118 reported 1,743 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The district removed 48 students to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to one percent of the 4,765 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 18 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 483 incidents with violence without physical injury, 11 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 74 incidents with drugs, six incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 189. There were 47 incidents of violence without injury. For 181 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 956 suspensions, while 718 girls were suspended.

There were 697 elementary or middle school students, and 1,046 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 962. There were 436 incidents of violence without injury. For 594 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	3	15
Violence without injury	47	436
Drug offenses	0	74
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	6
Tobacco	1	10
Other reason	189	962
Total	240	1503

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	0
1-2 days	181	594
2-3 days	45	333
3-4 days	7	307
4-10 days	6	269
More than 10 days	0	0