Rock Island Today

Rock Island School District 41 reported 1,301 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 1301 students during the year. This equates to 21 percent of the 6,096 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 44 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 388 incidents with violence without physical injury, 31 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 43 incidents with drugs, four incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,24 incidents 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 383. There were 76 incidents of violence without injury. For 360 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 764 suspensions, while 527 girls were suspended.

There were 509 elementary or middle school students, and 792 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 384. There were 312 incidents of violence without injury. For 224 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	43
Violence without injury	76	312
Drug offenses	8	35
Firearm	1	3
Other dangerous weapons	1	23
Tobacco	24	7
Other reason	383	384
Total	494	807

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	94	41
1-2 days	360	224
2-3 days	33	168
3-4 days	5	174
4-10 days	2	197
More than 10 days	0	3