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Students at Aurora West Unit School District 129 suspended or expelled 102 times in a single school year

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Aurora West Unit School District 129 reported 102 suspensions or expulsions for the 2020-2021 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 102 students during the year. This equates to less than one percent of the 10,932 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 51 incidents with violence without physical injury, nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 14 incidents with drugs, three incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

Boy students received 53 suspensions, while 49 girls were suspended.

There were 65 elementary or middle school students, and 37 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 51. There were 25 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 44 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.

Aurora West Unit School District 129 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol1
Violence with injury0
Violence without injury51
Drug offenses14
Firearm0
Other dangerous weapons3
Tobacco8
Other reason25
Total102
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less0
1-2 days44
2-3 days17
3-4 days25
4-10 days16
More than 10 days0

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