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Warren Community Unit School District 205 reported 50 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 50 students during the year. This equates to 14 percent of the 367 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, one incident with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 26. There was one incident of violence without injury. For 14 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 43 suspensions, while seven girls were suspended.

There were 34 elementary or middle school students, and 16 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 15. There were four incidents of drug offense. For six incidents, students were suspended for two to three 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	2
Violence with injury	0	2
Violence without injury	1	0
Drug offenses	0	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	26	15
Total	27	23

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	13	3
1-2 days	14	5
2-3 days	0	6
3-4 days	0	3
4-10 days	0	6
More than 10 days	0	0