DeKalb Times

Sandwich Community Unit School District 430 reported 190 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 190 students during the year. This equates to 10 percent of the 1,826 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with alcohol and tobacco, five incidents with drugs, one incident 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 124. For 108 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 149 suspensions, while 41 girls were suspended.

There were 70 elementary or middle school students, and 120 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 56. There were five incidents of drug offense. For 30 incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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	1
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	0	5
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	0	3
Other reason	124	56
Total	124	66

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	10	3
1-2 days	108	21
2-3 days	6	8
3-4 days	0	30
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0