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Fairfield Community High School District 225 reported 32 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 32 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 423 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, nine incidents with violence without physical injury, five incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident 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 12. There were five incidents of tobacco. For 13 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 29 suspensions, while three girls were suspended.

There were 32 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 six. There were two incidents of unspecified reasons. For three 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.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	0
Violence with injury	1	1
Violence without injury	3	6
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	5	0
Other reason	12	2
Total	21	11

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	13	3
2-3 days	8	3
3-4 days	0	3
4-10 days	0	2
More than 10 days	0	0