Galesburg Reporter

Abingdon-Avon Community Unit School District 276 reported 57 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 57 students during the year. This equates to six percent of the 885 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, nine incidents with violence without physical injury, 12 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, two incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 12. There was one incident of violence without injury. For nine incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 41 suspensions, while 16 girls were suspended.

There were 36 elementary or middle school students, and 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 21. There were 11 incidents of tobacco. For 17 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	0
Violence with injury	0	1
Violence without injury	1	8
Drug offenses	0	2
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	1	11
Other reason	12	21
Total	14	43

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	0
1-2 days	9	11
2-3 days	2	17
3-4 days	1	8
4-10 days	0	7
More than 10 days	0	0