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East Dubuque Community Unit School District 119 reported 53 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 53 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 634 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for five incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury, eight incidents with alcohol and tobacco, five incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 32. There were eight incidents of tobacco. For 24 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 41 suspensions, while 12 girls were suspended.

There were 25 elementary or middle school students, and 28 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for drug offense, of which there were five. There was one incident of unspecified reasons. For five incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	5	0
Violence without injury	2	0
Drug offenses	0	5
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	8	0
Other reason	32	1
Total	47	6

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	14	0
1-2 days	24	1
2-3 days	9	0
3-4 days	0	0
4-10 days	0	5
More than 10 days	0	0