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Mount Vernon Township High School District 201 reported 133 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 133 students during the year. This equates to 11 percent of the 1,164 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 20 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 43 incidents with violence without physical injury, 46 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 20 incidents with drugs, four incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for tobacco, of which there were 46. There were five incidents of violence with injury. For 47 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 70 suspensions, while 63 girls were suspended.

There were 133 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 40. There were 20 incidents of drug offense. For 39 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	5	15
Violence without injury	3	40
Drug offenses	0	20
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	4
Tobacco	46	0
Other reason	0	0
Total	54	79

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	47	2
2-3 days	7	3
3-4 days	0	35
4-10 days	0	39
More than 10 days	0	0