Peoria Standard

Farmington Central Community Unit School District 265 reported 102 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 102 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 1,242 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for three incidents with violence that caused physical injury, one incident with violence without physical injury, 34 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, eight 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 26. There was one incident of violence without injury. For 19 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 80 suspensions, while 22 girls were suspended.

There were 59 elementary or middle school students, and 43 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for tobacco, of which there were 33. There were 29 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 34 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	0
Violence with injury	0	3
Violence without injury	1	0
Drug offenses	1	7
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	1	33
Other reason	26	29
Total	29	73

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	5	0
1-2 days	19	10
2-3 days	5	23
3-4 days	0	34
4-10 days	0	6
More than 10 days	0	0