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District reports Sterling Community Unit School District 5 suspended or expelled students 278 times in a single school year

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Sterling Community Unit School District 5 reported 278 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 278 students during the year. This equates to nine percent of the 3,161 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 110 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, six incidents with violence without physical injury, 16 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 80. There were 14 incidents of violence with injury. For 81 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 209 suspensions, while 69 girls were suspended.

There were 236 elementary or middle school students, and 42 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 96. There were 61 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 99 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.

Sterling Community Unit School District 5 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury1496
Violence without injury51
Drug offenses05
Firearm00
Other dangerous weapons00
Tobacco115
Other reason8061
Total100178
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less71
1-2 days8199
2-3 days1042
3-4 days122
4-10 days114
More than 10 days00

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