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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Students suspended or expelled 117 times in a single school year in Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit School District 11

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Dr. Donna Leak Vice-Chair - Flossmoor | firststudentinc.com

Dr. Donna Leak Vice-Chair - Flossmoor | firststudentinc.com

Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit School District 11 reported 117 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 117 students during the year. This equates to 12 percent of the 952 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for five incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 15 incidents with violence without physical injury, 17 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, seven incidents with drugs, one incident 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 50. There was one incident of violence with injury. For 38 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 89 suspensions, while 28 girls were suspended.

There were 62 elementary or middle school students, and 55 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 22. There were 17 incidents of tobacco. For 23 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.

Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit School District 11 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury14
Violence without injury114
Drug offenses07
Firearm00
Other dangerous weapons01
Tobacco017
Other reason5022
Total5265
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less44
1-2 days3812
2-3 days69
3-4 days223
4-10 days217
More than 10 days00

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