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Students at Belvidere Consolidated Unit School District 100 suspended or expelled 113 times in a single school year

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Belvidere Consolidated Unit School District 100 reported 113 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 113 students during the year. This equates to two percent of the 7,470 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for five incidents with violence that caused physical injury, one incident with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, six incidents with drugs, three incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,two incidents 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 50. There were three incidents of firearm. For 32 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 87 suspensions, while 26 girls were suspended.

There were 92 elementary or middle school students, and 21 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 44. There were four incidents of violence with injury. For 16 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.

Belvidere Consolidated Unit School District 100 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury14
Violence without injury10
Drug offenses24
Firearm30
Other dangerous weapons02
Tobacco11
Other reason5044
Total5855
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less201
1-2 days3216
2-3 days413
3-4 days19
4-10 days115
More than 10 days01

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