Rock Island Today

Cambridge Community Unit School District 227 reported 43 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 43 students during the year. This equates to 10 percent of the 449 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, four incidents with violence without physical injury, one incident with alcohol and tobacco.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 25. There were three incidents of violence without injury. For 19 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 34 suspensions, while nine girls were suspended.

There were 30 elementary or middle school students, and 13 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 12. There was one incident of violence without injury. For five 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	0
Violence without injury	3	1
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	1	0
Other reason	25	12
Total	30	13

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	19	5
2-3 days	0	3
3-4 days	11	4
4-10 days	0	1
More than 10 days	0	0