Rock Island Today

Orion Community Unit School District 223 reported 19 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 19 students during the year. This equates to two percent of the 965 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence without physical injury, one incident 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 15. There was one incident of violence without injury. For 16 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

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

There were 19 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspension was given for drug offense, of which there was one. There was one incident of unspecified reasons. For one incident, student was 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	1	0
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	1	0
Other reason	15	1
Total	17	2

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	0
1-2 days	16	1
2-3 days	0	0
3-4 days	0	0
4-10 days	0	1
More than 10 days	0	0