Rockford Sun

Hononegah Community High School District 207 reported 573 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 573 students during the year. This equates to 30 percent of the 1,885 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for seven incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 42 incidents with violence without physical injury, 44 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 87 incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 360. There were 44 incidents of tobacco. For 373 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 413 suspensions, while 160 girls were suspended.

There were 573 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for drug offense, of which there were 47. There were 33 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 34 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	4	3
Violence without injury	21	21
Drug offenses	40	47
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	44	0
Other reason	360	33
Total	469	104

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	2
1-2 days	373	19
2-3 days	69	26
3-4 days	14	23
4-10 days	11	34
More than 10 days	0	0