Chambana Sun

St. Joseph-Ogden Community High School District 305 reported 21 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 21 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 434 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence without physical injury, five 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 five. For four incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 17 suspensions, while four girls were suspended.

There were 21 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 nine. There were five incidents of tobacco. For six 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	0	0
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	0	1
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	5
Other reason	5	9
Total	5	16

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	4	4
2-3 days	0	4
3-4 days	0	6
4-10 days	1	2
More than 10 days	0	0