Rock Island Today

Wethersfield Community Unit School District 230 reported 90 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 90 students during the year. This equates to 17 percent of the 530 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence without physical injury, 11 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 28. For 25 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 63 suspensions, while 27 girls were suspended.

There were 64 elementary or middle school students, and 26 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 48. There were 11 incidents of tobacco. For 26 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	0	0
Violence without injury	0	2
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	11
Other reason	28	48
Total	28	62

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	3	6
1-2 days	25	26
2-3 days	0	11
3-4 days	0	9
4-10 days	0	10
More than 10 days	0	0