Rock Island Today

Galva Community Unit School District 224 reported 65 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 65 students during the year. This equates to 14 percent of the 465 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, four incidents with violence without physical injury, seven incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 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 19. There was one incident of violence with injury. For 17 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 46 suspensions, while 19 girls were suspended.

There were 40 elementary or middle school students, and 25 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 32. There were seven incidents of tobacco. For 17 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.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	0
Violence with injury	1	1
Violence without injury	0	4
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	0	7
Other reason	19	32
Total	20	45

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	3	0
1-2 days	17	17
2-3 days	0	13
3-4 days	0	10
4-10 days	0	5
More than 10 days	0	0